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.
- Duplicate monitors in dialog for desktop icon layout (2025/06/26 08:18)
- Prevent scripts on desktop from executing by double-clicking (2025/06/19 03:37)
- Failing to set wallpaper image under wayland labwc (2025/05/22 13:26)
- no desktop icons / desktop right click menu (2025/05/21 13:01)
- Wallpaper no longer updates when overwriting wallpaper file? (2025/05/18 01:03)
- xfdesktop --reload no longer reloads (2025/05/18 01:03)
- xfdesktop core dump (2025/05/05 15:33)
- Random crashes when selecting icons (2025/04/30 20:43)
- Missing default name if gdk_monitor_get_model(monitor) fails (2025/04/28 00:32)
- Wallpaper "Random Order" gets stuck in a random image (2025/03/20 11:13)
- Crash when changing number of outputs in labwc (2025/03/13 12:35)
- desktop background settings not set (2025/03/13 08:18)
- Missing templates (2025/03/03 09:59)
- Desktop icon position for CDs/DVDs are remembered on a per-disc basis (2025/02/21 05:26)