r/xfce

Hello, everyone! I just set up my first XFCE-environment computer (I'm running Mint), and I have a "has only used Cinnamon until now" question lol.

I can't find network settings...? Is it called something different in XFCE? No matter what I search on DuckDuckGo I just cannot find an answer to this, for some reason. Nothing's in my whisker menu, except for "advanced network configurations," either.

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

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?

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

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 ?

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.

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