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xfce4-settings - Settings Manager

The xfce4-settings component provides a daemon, manager, and editor to centralize the configuration management of the Xfce system.

Settings

  • Settings Daemon – A daemon that runs in the background to apply all the settings
  • Settings Manager – Dialog that lists all the settings dialogs provided by this package (listed below) or other core modules of Xfce

Dialogs

  • Accessibility – Improve keyboard and mouse accessibility
  • Appearance – Customize the look of your desktop
  • Color – Manage the color profiles of your devices
  • Display – Configure screen settings and layout
  • Keyboard – Edit keyboard settings and application shortcuts
  • Mouse and Touchpad – Configure pointer device behavior and appearance
  • Settings Editor – Editor that allows to modify all the various setting channels
  • MIME Type Editor – Editor to modify application associations with MIME types

Other Dialogs

The following items are often visible in the settings manager, but not part of the xfce4-settings package. You can click the links below to redirect to the correct place on this website.

Latest Release

  • xfce4-settings 4.19.2 released (2024/03/31 11:56)
    <pre><a href="https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/start">xfce4-settings</a> 4.19.2 is now available for download from <a href="https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.19/xfce4-settings-4.19.2.tar.bz2">https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.19/xfce4-settings-4.19.2.tar.bz2</a> <a href="https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.19/xfce4-settings-4.19.2.tar.bz2?sha1">https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.19/xfce4-settings-4.19.2.tar.bz2?sha1</a> <a href="https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.19/xfce4-settings-4.19.2.tar.bz2?sha256">https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.19/xfce4-settings-4.19.2.tar.bz2?sha256</a> What is xfce4-settings? ======================= Settings manager of the Xfce desktop. Website: <a href="https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/start">https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/start</a> Release notes for 4.19.2 ======================== [Please note that this is a development release.] - Update copyright year - wayland: display-settings: Update struct members in order - display-settings: Reverse Default Fallback logic to apply changes - display-profiles: Allow editing profile names - display-profiles: Use a profile id independent of the profile name - display-profiles: Show all profiles in tree view - display-profiles: Use consistent naming - display-profiles: Better user profile filtering - display-settings: Do not update default profile in XfceRandr - display-settings: Reset profile before saving - display-settings: Always provide an EDID hash - x11: display-settings: Get display infos from a single place - x11: display-settings: Bump xrandr min version - display-profiles: Simplify and clarify code - xfsettingsd: Try to match the default display profile as well - xfsettingsd: Fix memory leaks around get_matching_profile() - xsettings: Use correct flag in XInternAtom - x11: xfsettingsd: Round to nearest integer when DPI is involved - xfsettingsd: Lower warning level - display-settings: Round to nearest integer when scaling - display-settings: Make main dialog unique - xfsettingsd: Bypass display name detection if only one remains - display-settings: Share default setting values - display-settings: Do not snap mirrored outputs on geometry change - display-settings: Reset cursor on leave-notify-event - xfsettingsd: Use minimal display dialog only for 2 outputs - display-settings: Update primary indicator visibility when toggled - display-settings: Avoid confusion about primary display status - display-settings: Turn "auto-enable-profiles" into a combo box - Revert "display-settings: Include auto-enable profile in combo box" - display-settings: Reset cursor if release-event is outside scrollarea - display-settings: Update output positioning on geometry change - display-settings: Always delay spin button emptying - display-settings: Run secondary dialogs outside signal handlers - display-settings: Revert switch state when deactivation is cancelled - display-settings: Better update output positioning on user interact - display-settings: Apply changes only when Apply button is clicked - display-settings: Switch to one-dimensional scaling - Fix use of gdk_cursor_new*() - display-settings: Move get_extended_mode() up one abstraction level - display-settings: Always invalidate scroll area on settings change - display-settings: Better UI update when mirroring/unmirroring - display-settings: Revisit querying mirrored state - display-settings: Also reset scale when mirroring - display-settings: Some fixes around identify popups - display-settings: Update scale with mode and transform - display-settings: Take proper account of transformation for positioning - wayland: display-settings: Fix is_mirrored() - display-settings: Avoid implicit mode change when enabling output - display-settings: Fix drawing scaling - x11: display-settings: Remove rounding - x11: display-settings: Fix meaning of scale factor - display-settings: Include auto-enable profile in combo box - display-settings: Modify only the first two displays in minimal mode - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list - display-settings: Wrap profiles in a combo box in minimal dialog - display-settings: Add extend-{up,down} to minimal dialog - display-settings: Add extend-left to minimal dialog - wayland: display-settings: Disable minimal dialog positioning - display-settings: Remove right margin in minimal dialog without profile - xfsettingsd: Fix -Wincompatible-pointer-types warning - Move X11 clipboard manager to libxfce4ui - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list - display-settings: Cleanup profile image file too - display-settings: Allow to mirror disabled outputs - display-settings: Do not auto-apply profile when opening minimal dialog - display-settings: Fix layout detection when opening minimal dialog - display-settings: Fix ellipsizing and spacing in minimal dialog - display-settings: Rename image files and cleanup - display-settings: Rename some ids in glade file and cleanup - display-settings: Rename _extend_right() to _extend() - display-settings: Better fit with the way GApplication works - display-settings: Fix xfconf warning - display-settings: Fix cairo surface management - Fix memory leaks around display_settings_get_profiles() - wayland: Ensure display settings are restored when change is cancelled - displays: Silence xfconf warning - displays: Fix wrong test for matching profiles - x11: displays: Fix use of deprecation macros - x11: displays: Disable new outputs if /Notify is set to "Do nothing" - wayland: display-settings: Fix disabled output not saved - Add new CI builds to build without X11 and Wayland - xfsettingsd: Always add sm-client option group - build: Check for gmodule-2.0 (V2) - Add check box to toggle adaptive/flat mouse accel profile with libinput - build: Restrict XfceSMClient to X11 - build: Fix typo in package version - Translation Updates: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur</pre>

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