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.

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

Here's a list (updated daily) of open bug reports with the date that bug was reported in parenthesis.

• Random crashes when selecting icons (2025/07/13 03:45)
• Critical assertion error in xfdesktop_icon_view_item_in_grid_slot: assertion 'row >= 0 && row < icon_view->nrows' failed (2025/07/13 03:31)
• Prevent scripts on desktop from executing by double-clicking (2025/07/13 02:40)
• Crash when changing number of outputs in labwc (2025/07/12 23:11)
• Duplicate monitors in dialog for desktop icon layout (2025/07/04 12:26)
• Failing to set wallpaper image under wayland labwc (2025/05/22 13:26)
• wayland: Critical warning at session startup in xfdesktop_icon_view_holder_new (2025/05/13 07:53)
• Missing default name if gdk_monitor_get_model(monitor) fails (2025/04/28 00:32)
• icons on the wrong display (2025/04/24 20:15)
• black desktop background. Unable to load and apply wallpaper on wayland sesssion (2025/04/06 21:35)
• Crash when rearranging icons after upgrade to 4.20 (2025/03/30 18:54)
• inconsistent and inncorrect teminology is messages when unmounting and ejecting media in xfdesktop (2025/03/21 20:49)
• context menu contains "safely remove volume" even when this is not possible (2025/03/21 20:39)
• Background color changes do not take effect immediately when color-style property is not yet written (2025/03/02 22:43)
• Desktop icon position for CDs/DVDs are remembered on a per-disc basis (2025/02/21 05:26)
• Using xfce-shapes as desktop background produces a white line at the rightmost side (2025/02/21 03:17)
• Black desktop on startup/during initial load (2025/02/17 10:06)
• duplicate external hdd "mounted" icon remains on desktop when volume is removed. (2025/02/17 10:02)
• Selecting multiple items on the desktop and dragging them to another monitor, only moves one item (2025/02/09 00:01)
• Wallpaper xfce-light.svg has white line at left and upper border (2025/01/10 12:11)

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