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.
- New release? (2022/05/23 11:06)
- Desktop right-click menu improvements (Copy to, Move to) (2022/05/16 20:16)
- Default wallpaper will load instead of custom one (2022/05/16 20:13)
- Deadlock changing background 4.16 (debian) (2022/05/10 22:07)
- High memory usage after couple of days uptime (2022/04/18 20:41)
- Setting image as wallpaper shows nothing if Style is None (2022/03/09 04:21)
- Background color options gradient and transparent not working (2022/03/05 20:20)
- xfdesktop should allow a completely transparent background (2022/01/04 22:42)
- xfdesktop wrongly complaining "failed to set the background". (2021/12/31 08:54)
- Browser favicons in minimized-application-icons mode (2021/11/21 13:27)
- Disable workspaces for external monitors (2021/10/20 20:54)
- Eliminate banding in color gradients with dithering (2021/10/16 23:43)
- Backdrop settings do not work on second or subsequent (X) screen (2021/10/13 05:21)
- Tooltip still present after opening app (2021/10/09 12:40)
- Potential memory leak in xfdesktop-file-utils.c (2021/08/21 04:58)
- Suggestion regarding desktop icon selection via keyboard input (2021/07/04 21:03)
- Desktop doesn't render properly when using glib-thumbnailer.patch (2021/04/21 21:08)