The Xfce desktop environment for Linux may be fast and flexible — but it’scurrently affectedby a veryserious flaw.
Users of this lightweight alternative to GNOME and KDE havereported that the choice of default wallpaper in Xfce iscausing damaging to laptop displaysand LCD monitors.
And there’s damningphotographic evidence to back the claimsup.
_“The defualt wallpaper is having my animal scritch (sic) all the plastic off my LED MONITOR! Can we choose a different wallpaper? I cannot expect the scratches and whu not? Let’s end the mouse games over here.”_
The flaw — or should that be claw? — is not isolated to just one user’s desktop either. Other users have been able to reproduce the issue,albeitinconsistently, as this second, separate photo an affected Reddtior proves:
It’s not clear whether the lay with Xfce or with cats. If it’s the latter the hope for a fix is moot; like cheap Android phones cats do not receive upgrades from their OEM.
‘for users of Xfce on other Linux distributions the outlook is less paw-sitive’
Thankfully Xubuntu users arenot affected by clawfulissue. This is because the Xfce-based Ubuntu flavor ships with itsown, mouse-free desktop wallpaper.
But for users of Xfce on other Linux distributions the outlook is less paw-sitive.
A patch has been proposed to fix the foul upbut is yet to be accepted upstream. If you’re at all concerned by bug #12117 you can apply the patch manually on your own system bydownloading the image below and setting it asyour wallpaper.
