TL;DR: This is all to ask how the session manager works, if it stores the "session to restore" data in RAM or not, and thus if I can expect the session manager to restore a saved session (browser, etc.) after a few days of no power.

I'm wondering where xfce4-session stores the file or files that allow it to reopen applications on startup, login, etc.; e.g. are they stored in RAM? or on your persistent storage/filesystem? Or, in other words, how does the session manager actually work? I haven't yet found a precise answer here or in the documentation.

If relevant, my current use-case (Linux Mint 20.2) is that I'm awaiting a replacement for a damaged fan, and during that waiting time, I'm considering the most reliable way to preserve my current session (Firefox with a few tabs open that I want to ensure will be reopened if I leave the laptop powered off for a few days).

My experience with the session manager has always been a reliable restart of the browser (with all tabs) and other applications after a power cycle or hibernation (and my self-answer would be I can obviously expect this to continue, but I'm asking just to be sure and I wanna know how it works), so I'm assuming that, wherever and however the session manager works, it's not storing its data in RAM like, as far as I know, some browsers directly do--and ofc the way browsers vs OS/DE session managers do their jobs is different.

Is that assumption correct, that xfce4-session data is not stored in RAM?

Thank you in advance for any clarification or correction. And I assume I have some misunderstandings of how Firefox vs. XFCE is able to restore a session and how RAM works in relation to power management.

I'd like to tweak a plugin so I can interact with it from the command line. Specifically, I want to trigger a countdown timer in the xfce4-timer-plugin, by countdown name, by running a simple script or command. I imagine this should be doable by publishing something onto a bus or pub/sub q maybe?

Can someone direct me to a good example where this is being done, or point me at some docs?

Thanks.

On KDE you can write kwin scripts to do things like show a GUI.

I'm wondering if there is something similar in XFCE?

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Hopefully this makes sense, I apologize if I am not explaining this correctly. I've tried to search for this, but it's hard to explain.

I have a mini PC running CachyOS with XFCE. I have two monitor connected to the mini PC.

What I like to do is have an instance of firefox on display 2 running youtube videos or something, and display 1 is where I am working or web browsing.

When I set this up, it's fine, but as soon as I click something on display 1, the firefox browser on display 2 (with youtube) goes transparent and my wallpaper bleeds into the screen. Display 2 doesn't have to be youtube, it can be anything. I am testing it now with Thunar. I am typing this on firefox in display 1, and Thunar is in display 2 and the wallpaper bleeds into the Thunar window. But if I click on Thunar, then Thunar is solid and now my display 1 firefox has its wallpaper bleeding through.

Then if I click on Display 2, it is normal, but whatever is on display 1 now has a transparent window and I see the wallpaper bleed through the display on display 1.

Doesn't have to be firefox either. This happens no matter what is running on either display.

I feel like this must be some XFCE setting that perhaps I accidentally turned on, but I have no idea what it is and can't figure it out. Any ideas?

Thanks!!

Is there any way to install daily bing wallpaper on xfce?

Hi everyone, I recently installed Linux Mint (xfce) and I'm having trouble setting up a keyboard shortcut to focus on windows in the order they appear on the panel. For example, if Firefox is the first app on the panel and Terminal is the second, pressing Super + 1 should focus on Firefox, and pressing Super + 2 should focus on the Terminal.

Has anyone figured out how to set this up in xfce?

Previously i was using gnome de, now i switched to linux mint xfce, now when i try to switch workspaces it doesnt feel that refined. the problem is i cant identify which workspace i am currently working on and if i switched my workspace or not without any animations.

is there any way to:-

1. mark each workspace

2. give each one a different wallpaper

3. adding animations while switching

I know KDE has a feature like this in application settings, but I generally prefer the lightweight nature of XFCE when I don't actively need Wayland.

I have a program I'm working with that uses a lot of keyboard shortcuts, with Ctrl+F-keys included. Obviously, this does not play nice with the XFCE shortcuts. Any advice?

On Mint 22, XFCE 4.18.

After booting, I log in through the normal GUI login and the desktop is bare like a first-ever login. My home directory is empty, and has the How-to-access-your-files file that indicates that /home/me/.Private hasn't been mounted.

A workaround that I've found is to first login on the non-GUI console you get with Ctrl-Alt-F1. This will cause the encrypted home directory to be properly mounted. Then I can log out and log in under XFCE and everything is fine.

How can I make XFCE logins do the mount correctly without this additional step?

So I know you can center it at the bottom of the screen, but only at the bottom. You can't make it float slightly above the bottom, unless you want it off center. Is there a way I can manually do this, or an easier way?

One weird thing I have noticied about xfce compared to cinnamon and even Windows is that if I were to move a window using my mouse for some reason it is slower to move the window around, like the mouse sensitivity changes slightly just for when moving the window arround it is slower.

Any reason why this happens and how to fix it?

Using bottles when I run a full screen game then the taskbar still appears and when I get into the menu screen it will show the game as a window and I have to always go into settings to enable fullscreen mode.

it doesn't happen with cinnamon, and using xfce when I go into full screen on Youtube or something then I don't get the same issues, its only through games running on bottles with xfce, any ideas how to solve this?

https://preview.redd.it/h81urmzehk2e1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=9af782650a62e1f271cbf7b21075ecb6cd44d589

Hi y'all, I'm fairly new to Xfce, I wanted a tiling workflow with the backbone of a full DE so I went the Xfce/i3wm hybrid route which I'm loving so far. However, for some reason the font colour for the clock and window buttons has become inconsistent with the rest on most themes this gray colour persists with different clock modes. Applying some Xfce themes will fix it but has other undesired effects. I've tried editing the gtk.css files but it doesn't seem to have any effect. Do any of you know how I could diagnose/fix this?

If I have multiple windows, one window is focused but others aren't focused. If I move my mouse to another window and I scroll on that, it will focus on the window that it was not focused on. I was wondering how would I disable this so that the window will scroll without being focused on?

I find this very annoying

I'm on Xubuntu 24.04.1. I'm using the default screensaver and its screen locker. The password prompt displays in the center of the screen - I would like to move it elsewhere, e.g. to the top-center, top-left, or an arbitrary position. Is that possible?

These are the settings of my screen locker (just to make it clearer which app my Xubuntu uses) and what my lockscreen looks like:

Xubuntu 24.04.1 lockscreen and its settings

I know this has been asked before, for example, here: https://www.reddit.com/r/xfce/comments/18kebhz/xfce4screensaver_settings/ . However, the only responses I found are for LightLocker which isn't used in default Xubuntu config anymore, it seems.

Thanks!

Idk if thats my pc's (thinkpad x220) problem or xfce's. As an announcement or problem sound, it has that short, high frequency ding. When laptop turns on etc. I use browser's in-page search very often, and when there's a typo in it, it plays that problem sound, and with headphones its just intolerable. Is it possible to change xfces problem sound, or is it permanent?

Hello,

As the title says im looking to make that kind of theme for my Xubuntu.

What font, theme, dock, panel, background etc. do you recommend?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I just switched to XFCE and most of the things are fine so far, but there is one thing I'd like to customize:

I enabled the notification log and now when I get a notification and I don't click on it, it shows a little red circle on top of the notification icon: https://i.imgur.com/NXgJRY8.png (for reference, it looks like this without unread notifications: https://i.imgur.com/EVFX8nL.png)

Is there a way to disable that red circle? The icon itself already changes (it tilts to the right) and that red circle kind of annoys me. Most of the time I read the notification, but I didn't click on it.

Hi,as you can see there's a thin line of space being left even though the window of Brave is maximized, it's happening on some apps on my primary screen, how do I fix this?

https://preview.redd.it/caacq177gp1e1.png?width=1127&format=png&auto=webp&s=b0d0b7e8c9d62f7ad221e472bf76c0bada486ef3

I was trying to follow along a tutorial but I couldnt open the same windows as he did here:
for me its just shows application menu there is no option for appearence is behavious its just change the logo and logo name. Any help?