Reporting Bugs - xfwl4
Xfwl4 is currently an experimental work in progress. It is not recommended as a daily driver.
See the Xfwl4 FAQ for details.
If you are experiencing a bug in xfwm4, 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.
- DMS shell unexpected mouse focus behavior (2026/08/31 18:00)
- Implement xdg-session-management (2026/08/31 11:19)
- Get an i18n parser working on xfce1 that can handle the "tr!()" macro (2026/08/28 08:54)
- Add support for app-defined global keyboard shortcuts (2026/08/14 06:48)
- Figure out how to make ext-session-lock more user-friendly (2026/08/11 01:32)
- Add ability to switch keyboard layouts (groups) on the fly (2026/08/03 15:32)
- xfwl4 sometimes exits after virtual-console change (2026/07/08 08:59)
- Applications crash when GTK_MODULES=appmenu-gtk-module (2026/07/08 08:58)
- Investigate whole-desktop zooming (instead of per-output) (2026/06/23 04:18)
- Investigate whether we need to implement focus_hint=false (2026/06/23 04:18)
- Investigate scale handling on startup (2026/06/23 04:18)
- Figure out how to make xfce4-find-cursor work (2026/06/23 04:17)
- Implement keyboard accessbility features (2026/06/23 04:14)
- Investigate power management/DPMS flickering (2026/03/20 20:26)
- Implement wp-color-management (2026/03/17 11:21)
- Implement wp-color-representation (2026/03/02 22:38)
- Implement ext-workspace-foreign-toplevel (2026/03/02 22:37)
- Implement ext-foreign-toplevel-management (2026/03/02 22:37)