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.
- Crash when rearranging icons after upgrade to 4.20 (2025/02/12 00:26)
- Gamma-corrected gradients are much slower to draw than linear gradients (2025/02/08 08:04)
- xfdesktop always crashing/segfaulting on trixie (2025/02/07 10:12)
- icons on the wrong display (2025/02/07 09:39)
- Graphic error on one of 2 screens (2025/02/06 21:49)
- Black desktop on startup/during initial load (2025/02/06 21:48)
- Icon position are not (re)stored on screen size change (2025/01/26 14:19)
- Default background always displayed with xf86-video-fbdev driver (2025/01/14 05:50)
- Wallpaper xfce-light.svg has white line at left and upper border (2025/01/10 12:11)
- Wallpaper not being set in Wayland with Wayfire Compositor (2025/01/03 01:05)
- Sort order needed (2024/12/06 04:12)
- RightMenu/NewFile/Templates do not same as desktop (2024/12/06 00:43)
- Set a default background for new monitors (2024/11/27 17:08)
- Icon view does not properly support touch screens (2024/11/07 15:45)
- Add option to sync keyboard shortcuts with Thunar (2024/10/04 09:48)
- [feature request] sort file/launcher types separately (2024/10/04 01:56)
- Switching desktop icons is no longer applied instantly (2024/06/09 14:25)