Reporting Bugs - xfwm4
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.
- Hotkey for Cycle Window to close opened windows (2025/09/14 03:14)
- Hotkey to Cycle Window without showing dialog (2025/09/14 03:10)
- Hotkey to Switch Application in reverse (2025/09/14 03:08)
- Hotkey to adjust window size with keyboard (2025/09/14 02:53)
- Per-app focus stealing prevention (2025/09/10 14:59)
- App Windows switching desktop/panels after Power Safe (2025/08/09 19:56)
- Allow edge snapping to work on windows set to Always be on top (2025/08/02 22:40)
- Add a close all windows hotkey (2025/08/02 22:39)
- Closing a modal window does not restore the focus on top level window (2025/07/27 15:47)
- Allow more then one hotkey shortcut per action (2025/07/26 01:13)
- Hide title of windows when maximized setting issues (2025/07/26 01:00)
- Bug Report: XFCE Mouse Clicks Intermittently Freeze on New Window/Menu Open (2025/07/12 09:51)
- Documentation on the new 4.20 title textures is incorrect (2025/07/07 13:09)
- Crash when using Nvidia card + Mesa 25.1.4 + xfwm4 compositor ON (2025/07/04 20:41)
- xfwm4: crashes on ALT+TAB windows switching (2025/06/23 18:53)
- Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. (2025/06/23 09:59)
- Feature request: Accessibility: Allow keybindings to control zoom (2025/06/20 18:18)
- LibreOffice windows with search bar open stay on top despite Alt-TAB (2025/06/03 04:23)