When experiencing bugs with the xfdesktop application, your way of helping things getting fixed is to report a bug about it in bugzilla. Note: For this you will need to have/create an account.

• [Bug 14957] Icon placement option for xfdesktop (2018/12/15 04:19)
• [Bug 14950] When logging in with Nvidia's full composition pipeline enabled, logging in freezes the desktop until tty is changed (2018/12/07 02:07)
• [Bug 11266] [bug] Desktop icons order resets (2018/12/06 12:17)
• [Bug 14944] Suggestion: add a delay before closing the terminal for the desktop icons with the 'Run in terminal' property set. (2018/12/05 10:33)
• [Bug 14609] Crash with SEGV with tiled/MST monitor (2018/12/01 14:59)
• [Bug 14919] URLs dropped on desktop should create a launcher OR download the URL, depending (2018/11/28 21:08)
• [Bug 13929] Xfdesktop drag-and-drop copies to non-thunar file managers, rather than moving the file. (2018/11/28 20:53)
• [Bug 14813] Setting for spacing icons and icons name ellipsize (2018/11/19 11:24)
• [Bug 12516] mouse roller scrolls windows instead of lines (2018/11/13 04:33)
• [Bug 14863] Libre Office pulses at me (2018/11/13 00:53)
• [Bug 14844] Potential memory leak when repeatedly reconnecting HDMI cable (2018/11/12 16:44)
• [Bug 14868] Background "Spanning screens" option does not work (2018/11/12 14:42)
• [Bug 14838] Wallpaper scaling fails if image contains EXIF markup for rotation. (2018/11/04 13:22)
• [Bug 14833] Desktop hangs after login with a HiDPI display (2018/11/04 06:18)
• [Bug 14827] xfce4-about 4.13 thinks it is 4.12 (2018/11/03 18:37)
• [Bug 12631] Desktop background directory won't stick (2018/10/21 03:54)
• [Bug 14180] Bug with selection when pressing both RMB and LMB together (2018/10/19 02:54)
• [Bug 13928] GLib-CRITICAL **: g_base64_encode_step: assertion 'in != NULL' failed (2018/10/17 22:43)
• [Bug 14644] Error in scaling down background images that are in portrait orientation (2018/08/31 12:10)
• [Bug 14121] Enable placing desktop icons on monitor of choice (2018/08/20 23:01)

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