Reporting Bugs - xfdesktop
If you are experiencing a bug in xfdesktop, your way of helping things getting fixed is to report a bug about it in Xfce GitLab. Please note that to do this you will need to have / create an account.
Before reporting a new bug, please try your best to check if it has already been reported (see the latest reports below). Click here for a full list of bug reports.
Report a new bug
If your bug has not been reported before, please submit a new bug report.
When writing your bug report, try to be as descriptive as possible, but avoid verbosity; Mozilla has a nice guide on how to write a bug report.
For more information, see Bug Reporting and Fixing.
File a new bug or enhancement request
Open Bugs
Here's a list (updated daily) of open bug reports with the date that bug was reported in parenthesis.
- Deleting Obsolete Icon References from icons.screen0.yaml (2025/11/17 12:51)
- Failing to set wallpaper image under wayland labwc (2025/11/16 22:08)
- Brightness issue ( weather Using keyboard shortcut or manually) (2025/11/11 20:55)
- desktop background settings not set (2025/10/29 12:05)
- Icons disappearance when update (2025/10/21 12:25)
- Position of new file is wrong (2025/10/02 07:03)
- Locking screen with dual monitor makes reordering the desktop icons. (2025/09/23 22:24)
- Critical warning in xfdesktop_file_icon_manager_start_grid_resize (2025/07/30 10:38)
- Desktop background image does not resize after restoring previous resolution (2025/07/22 00:13)
- Prevent scripts on desktop from executing by double-clicking (2025/07/13 22:50)
- Duplicate monitors in dialog for desktop icon layout (2025/07/04 12:26)
- Missing default name if gdk_monitor_get_model(monitor) fails (2025/04/28 00:32)