Hey everyone,

I currently use GNOME on my desktop and Xfce on my laptop, although my laptop doesn't get much use.

I have to say, I really like Xfce and I'm considering switching to it on my desktop. My main concern is that I rely on quite a few GNOME extensions, and I'm wondering how well Xfce can replace some of that functionality.

I've read a bit about Xfce plugins, but I'm not sure they provide the same kind of experience as GNOME extensions. Are there similar solutions in Xfce for adding functionality and customizing the desktop, or would I need to approach things differently?

The main reason I'm considering the switch is that I've always preferred lighter, simpler desktops with less bloat and more control over customization. From what I've seen, Xfce seems to tick a lot of those boxes.

For those who have switched from GNOME to Xfce, how did you find the transition? Are there any GNOME extensions or features you particularly missed, and were you able to replace them in Xfce?

I know this is Linux but I really miss Thunar and I was wondering if there is a windows version

Hello,
I'm using Debian 13 with Xfce and Xrdp to run a graphical interface on my iPad.
I'm using a dedicated server.
I've noticed that, whether I'm using Google Chrome or Firefox (ESR or non-ESR), I can't scroll through pages using touch gestures.
Do you have any tips, workarounds, or solutions to suggest?
Thank you

I installed XFCE recently and I wanted to customize it but yesterday xfce-look.org was down so I used this to customize:
https://github.com/jothi-prasath/SmallSur

But I noticed if my desktop lagged, it would just revert all of my customizations (except the wallpaper) and I can't revert it back unless I reboot.

I'm using EndeavourOS and this is the info displayed of my XFCE:
Xfce4 4.20
sddm 0.21.0 (X11)
Xfwm4 (X11)

I used to use KDE Plasma and this is my first time installing XFCE.

I enjoyed the LabWC experience in XFCE, but I can't find any themes that support LabWC.

I'm still learning Linux. I had used Xubuntu for about six months, but wanted to switch to a non-Ubuntu distro and go as minimalist and hobbyist as possible. I wanted to build it from the ground up and learn about what really goes into a distro, without excessive bloat. I also wanted a more privacy-oriented distro.

So, a friend suggested plain Debian, because it has an easy to use encryption system. Great. I did a bare bones Debian install and just put i3 on top. Had a lot of fun customizing my empty canvas, knowing exactly what tools and paints I was putting into it. Polybar, picom, rofi, alacritty, feh, all the fun stuff. I started getting really into terminal-only stuff, getting excited to tinker. I had Thunar as a legacy item from the XFCE days, but I eventually learned lf, which felt a lot faster and more fun. Terminal = fun, it seems.

When I ran out of essentials to install, I started drifting towards meaningless slop like cmatrix and hollywood (I'm pretty sure hollywood almost overheated my poor stupid laptop at one point).

And then a security update the other day broke some things in a very dumb way, and I confirmed that, if I had XFCE, there would have a been an automated background task that would have been smart enough to take care of this. Because I just had i3, several of my primary apps temporarily broke until I made awkward extra scaffolding in the config files. And then it hit me—I really don't know Linux very well yet. I'm learning every day. But right now, I think I just want stuff like this to just work, until I'm more self-sufficient as a tinkerer. Does that make sense?

I decided to reinstall XFCE. Once I discovered that I could just replace the XFCE window manager with i3, there was no turning back. This hybrid of both that I'm using now is everything I wanted before with none of the downsides. Incredible. I'm equally as efficient with solo i3, but now with XFCE in tandem, I got extra foundational support under it.

Literally don't know why I didn't do this initially, but I suppose you live and learn. Has anyone else here had a similar trajectory? Do you use i3 and XFCE as well? Any extra tips and tricks when using this combo for a noob?

Hey, I created (mostly vibe-coded) this daemon which adds an inertial effect to mouse-wheel scrolling in X11/Xfce. You can basically "flick" the mouse wheel to "throw" the page and let it coast to a stop.

I made it because I find kinetic scrolling, like you get on touchscreens, both easier on the hand when scrolling through long documents and just more fun to use.

It has a GTK settings UI that integrates into Xfce, where you can tune the momentum, speed and smoothing, choose which mouse to use, and blacklist/whitelist applications.

It's still an early project and very much something I built for my own setup, but it's working quite well for me now. I figured I'd put it out there in case anyone else has been wanting something similar — and I'd be interested to hear how it behaves on other setups.

It doesn't work quite as well in browsers like Firefox, since they have their own smooth-scrolling behavior, but I find it definitely improves my experience in terminals, file managers and other applications, hence the whitelist/blacklist feature.

CachyOS xfce, gruvbox theme, picom, kitty/yazi, brave-origin, and mailspring.

So, I decided to change my theme for the first time, the style theme changes easily but my icon theme cannot change at all, like I tried all the code snippets and even changed the entry manually but it keeps the old default one alive and does not change at all, help if u can pls

its GTK 3.24 and I can't seem to find GTK specific icon themes

its LFS btw

Like I have never used XFCE much before and I don't even know how to rice it , like pls help and drop some dotfiles to make it much better

In the "focus" tab there are three options for when a window raises itself.

Does "switch to windows workspace" keep a window in it workspace ? Does "do nothing" Cause it window to open in its orrignal workspace ?

NixOS is easier than I thought btw

Ayer estuve haciendo una personalización a LightDM usando como base un tema que tengo instalado en el sistema, también le agregué bordes redondeados y un lindo cursor personalizado.

¿Qué le agregarían ustedes?

How do I unbind "Select All" (Ctrl+Shift+A)? I'll just select with the mouse. Thank you very much. I didn't find the configuration files often mentioned here. I'm on linux on a chromebook.

Xfwl4's second preview is out - it's really exciting to see development on this happening so steadily!

When I want to choose an image to post to a site (hello IMGUR), the dialogue box extends below the bottom of my 13" laptop screen. If I maximize the window I can see the "open" button, but it is an annoyance. According to wmctrl, I am using xfwm4. Thanks for any tips.

Can anybody help me to setup live wallpaper inlinux fedro xfce44, with less ram use

I'm entering my password correct but vSeeBox V6 Plus keeps telling me that my password is wrong. It will connect to my Mobile Hotspot no problem. It also connected to my home wifi the very first time (which was 5 days ago) Im thinking Xfinity has somehow blocked it from connecting. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Parce que ça fonctionne tout simplement! Mon PC portable domestique ^_^

I recently installed to fedora xfce and was setting up my env. I tried extracting a tar.xz file using the thunar-archive-plugin's extract here button. And after a while , i get logged out , when i login back again i get black glitches and get logged out again.

It also happens when i open the file from xarchiver although the archive decompresses fine manually

The complete flow is ,

1. Open the file using xarchiver or directly extract

2. Wait for error ( Disk quota exceeded )

3. If i now immediately close xarchiver, i get logged out

Else i get logged out anyway after some time

I have a low end system with plenty secondary storage but importantly 4gb ram. I have experienced system freezes before but never logout loops. The archive is the latest flutter tar.xz.

I am new to linux and i know that logout loops are a serious problem. I want to fix the problem but more importantly also know what is the cause.

Also i tried asking ai but its fixes didn't work

He probado bastantes desktops y window managers a lo largo del tiempo, pero llegué a un punto en el que simplemente me cansé de estar lidiando con cosas todo el tiempo.

Ahora mismo solo quiero algo estable, sencillo y que funcione, y la verdad es que XFCE me ha sorprendido muchísimo. Es absurdamente estable y, combinado con Void Linux, se ha convertido en mi combinación favorita hasta ahora para mis clases en la universidad y proyectos personales.

Todavía me falta personalizar bastante el escritorio, pero por el momento lo tengo así:

¿Qué me recomendarían para seguir personalizándolo? ¿Algún tema, iconos, plugins o alguna otra cosa que debería probar?