Hi,

I have Debian/XFCE installed on a laptop with an English (US) keyboard. Occasionally, I need to type some Hindi text - only a few words or so. To type that much, I don't need a dedicated physical Hindi keyboard... I was wondering if it is possible to bring up a virtual, on-screen Hindi keyboard on XFCE?

Thanks!

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/genmon-mpv

This project is created for use with the xfce desktop environment, and the mpv media player.

With the use of the Generic Monitor panel plugin, it displays scrolling the name of the file or the stream playing with mpv.

If another instance of mpv starts playing, genmon-mpv will display the most recently opened title of file/stream.

As soon as an mpv instance displayed is closed, and another previous instance is still open, genmon-mpv will display the title of the still open file/stream.

This project is consisted of two scripts, one in bash, and one in lua. Any feedback is most welcome.

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Hi,

For some reason, when I use an external keyboard in XFCE, the Alt and Win keys and the Alt Gr and Menu keys get switched (they switch only for the external keyboard). This happened without me changing any settings. All I can remember doing is using another external keyboard at work, but I have used it before without any change occurring. I also rember installing a new version of Zoom. In any regard, I can't seem to reverse the change. Please help!

C

Hello,

i'm running archlinux with XFCE as my primary system.

Using chromium i got an black border arround the contextmenu of chrome.
Search the web i found some posts telling me to enable composing, but unter xfce4-settings-editor the composing of xfwm is enabled. All other applications running fine on. Anyone out there with some more tips to remove this upsetting "border" around the contextmenu?

https://preview.redd.it/lya9xntv0azd1.png?width=710&format=png&auto=webp&s=7bee81f8b52b1b059d7c358bd12821e0e1f314de

sudo apt update

sudo apt install playerctl xfce4-genmon-plugin [if you have it dont install] add genmon add-on on pannel and write the command playerctl metadata --format "{{ title }} - {{ artist }}"

put refresh 5 sec :)

I love Xfce now, but my PC had gone into suspend, and now all the application windows are permanently frozen. I can't kill them, and they're not running in the system monitor. Is this a problem that is most likely caused because I installed Xfce as a session? I even tried rebooting, but every time I boot into Xfce, the application windows are there, permanently frozen. My main Gnome session has no problems. Is this most likely because I have Xfce as a session, plus Gnome? How can I fix this? Is it better to just run one desktop environment next time I reinstall OpenSUSE, and I will go with Xfce as my main desktop environment?

I'm on opensuse tw

Update fixed

i want to add numbers inside of my workspace miniatures, that placed on xfce panel, just like i saw in KDE Plasma is it possible? my problem is i have bug: i'm using xfce + i3wm, so when i switch workspaces, for example, from first to third, it doesn't show that i have 1 and 3 workspaces, it shows just two workspace miniatures, and they numbers can be anything with large gaps between, like 2 and 5, 1 and 8, 5 and 10, etc. so i would like to now what keyboard shortcut should i use to get to specific workspace thank you in advance

can I use Discover (kde store) on XFCE? If yes how do I install it and use it there I'm thinking of switching to xfce because performance and resource usage

Edit: I will just stick with kde (not much performance lost but I will keep it)

When launching through the application menu, the system pops up a popup requesting permission to enter a password, but fails to launch properly after entering the correct password. In contrast, launching with “sudo <application>” works fine. I'm wondering if this is a problem caused by xfce.

I'm new to linux (couple days in). in the windows manager shortcuts, the hotkeys with a combination of super don't seem to work. when i changed them to a combination not consisting of super, they worked perfectly. what is wrong with window manager? or is it the super key? super key combinations are working fine with application shortcuts

Hello XFCE people:

1. I love XFCE, tried them all, this is the best!
2. How can I make the cursor continuously blink? It blinks for 10 seconds when it gets the focus then it stops. I trolled around looking for answers but nothing seems to work. Is there some kind of 'SetCursorBlink' setting I can't find?

I'm running multiple distros in Virtualbox VM's under Windows, all with XFCE as the DE.

I'm new to xfce (used Arch and it looks unfamiliar to me unlike kde because it's close to windows 10/7) Want to customize it Heard it uses CSS to customize it, is that true?

https://preview.redd.it/powmrdrl8pxd1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=fba4fc36f0853a32a94c1cbc6005941801d7b470

:D

Even though my icon pack (papirus) stores a games folder icon, dropbox, android, onedrive, you name it...

these icons aren't utilized, i was able to find them all and tried assigning them through various ways, with each one failing.

Do any ways exists? or is this just a feature that will never get added?

I tried changing themes and looking in appearance and settings

https://preview.redd.it/lubqen1vk1xd1.jpg?width=1315&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=35dc5549e3ce2a295da35484c4e35b972cca48bd

Using ARch Linux and xfce, I am using bottles: https://usebottles.com/ to play crysis 2 and I am having an issue where all the time the game starts off as not fullscreen and I have to enable the game to be in full screen. This is not a problem when I launched the game on Windows on the exact same computer. Any suggestions as to what I can do to fix this?

sorry for no formatting but im on my phone rn. when i run ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local it gives me an error saying that i need xfce4windowing0 version 4.19.2 or higher and mine is currently 4.18.1.... Going thru dependecy hell everything requires some other xfce package and i always end up needing some 4.19.2 version package which is apparently installed as 4.18.2 even tho i installed dev tools v4.19.2. please help?

Running in a vmware virtual machine im getting a glx_init error "Failed to enable vsync".

When i run with --no-vsync or vsync disabled in the config file the machine starts freezing up and acting weird. For example, i can move the terminal window, but when i go to the app search i can use my keyboard or click on anything. Ive searched far and wide and have come up with no solution. Cant even really find anyone with my exact problem, only 2 people in a comment section on this video i was following to customize my DE. They have no replies.

Edit: after rebooting with 3d acceleration enabled, it seems to work fine without any errors or issues. Keeping this post up in case anyone has a similar issue in the future

I mean, what can I change with css and what I cannot? Can I center an applet with margin: auto;?

Or can I use pseudo classes? I really want to customize everything, but I also wanna use as less plugins and 3rd party apps/tools as possible

What I wanna do is

1. use ctrl+kp (1-4) to display workspaces (1-4)

2. use alt+kp (1-4) to send the current window to workspaces (1-4)

3. use ctrl+alt+kp (1-4) to send the current window, and display, to workspaces (1-4).

I've been using Window Manager>Keyboard to edit the Shortcuts to match the existing Actions.

I feel like an idjot now, and it's all Greek to me. I tried... I really did. I even tried to RTFM; fat lotta good that did me. Did I say I'm an idjot? What am I doing wrong, because I know PEBKAC.

If it matters, I'm rolling Tumbleweed.

Thanks

https://preview.redd.it/5jxp5nd8olwd1.png?width=758&format=png&auto=webp&s=c40cf5a8f197246d925b1a09aaca93cfaad9bc18

It took a while, but I managed to get it just the way I like it.

I'm using XFCE 4.18.1 on MX Linux 23.4. Every time I reboot, it seems like my computer thinks it is on a higher resolution or something like that. The font in my panel is tiny. The "Window Scaling" still says "1x (no scaling)" but I can visually see it isn't "right."

If I then pick any of the "Styles" in the Appearance app, it all immediately goes back correct. I just pick a different one and then back to the one I like and it works fine - till I reboot.

Any ideas?