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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.
- Investigate latency issues with the tabwin popping up (2026/07/23 19:22)
- "Focus follows mouse" acts inconsistiently (2026/07/18 03:51)
- 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)
- Display confirmation dialog for killing unresponsive clients (2026/06/23 04:18)
- Figure out how to make xfce4-find-cursor work (2026/06/23 04:17)
- Implement support for wp-keyboard-shortcuts-inhibitor-v1 (2026/06/23 04:16)
- Implement screen margins (2026/06/23 04:13)
- Implement opacity change on titlebar horizontal scroll (2026/06/23 04:13)
- Implement application/application-window switching (2026/06/23 04:13)
- Change window opacity on horiz scroll on titlebar (2026/06/23 04:12)
- Make the render loop lazy in order to reduce CPU/GPU usage (2026/06/23 04:11)
- Implement xfce-output-private-v1 (2026/05/14 00:07)