theme: Revista
compositor: compiz
WD: Emerald
dock: cairo dock

lmk if yall want my configs and links

Thank you so much for this amazing DE!
After 3+ years of using it, I can confidently say that I can’t use any other... It is definitely the greatest DE!

If anyone is interested

https://github.com/6aru/Dotfiles/tree/main/Xfce%20Dynamic%20Notch

• ⁠Global theme: Redmond97 installed in `/usr/share/themes
• ⁠Theme variant: Redmond97 no-csd, optimized for XFCE
• ⁠Color scheme: Redmond97 Slate
• ⁠Icons: Redmond97 icon theme installed globally in /usr/share/icons
• ⁠Terminal: Transparent background enabled with background-mode = 2
• ⁠GTK engines: Installed gtk2-engines-murrine, gtk2-engines-pixbuf, and gtk3-engines-xfce

Hey there!

So I just got Debian installed today with XFCE, works great! Then I see sub-reddits like r/xfce and r/unixporn, and there are a lot of great desktops posted on both pages, often with all the configs/files they used. I'm super inspired to customize my own desktop cause it looks awesome, but I guess as a beginner, this is all a little confusing.

But I guess my question is, how do people actually design these themes? Where do people go to find these themes/icons/wallpapers/taskbars/widgets/window managers/etc? And how do you know where to install or place these things when you are ricing your desktop?

I've spent a couple hours today doing my own searching, and it's hard to just find any good, definitive, non-outdated "how-to" guide or "start here" for this stuff, specifically with xfce. I also watched some videos of others doing it, but I notice discrepancies sometimes, specifically as to where files should go (Example: For placing themes, I've seen some guides say to place it in "/usr/share/themes", others say "~/.local/themes", one said "~/.themes").

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

HELP Hi everyone,

I'm trying to troubleshoot a reproducible suspend/resume display problem on an HP Victus 15-fa1xxx.

After suspending with the lid / entering s2idle and then waking the laptop, the internal display often takes 20–30 seconds to return. Sometimes it takes several minutes, and sometimes the display never properly recovers and continues blinking/going black until I reboot.

The system itself appears to resume, but the internal eDP display fails to come back normally.

HARDWARE

Laptop: HP Victus 15-fa1xxx

CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12450H

iGPU: Intel Alder Lake-P GT1 [UHD Graphics] PCI ID: 8086:46a3 Driver: i915

dGPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Driver: nvidia / nvidia-drm

Internal display: 1920x1080 144 Hz eDP-1 Physically connected to the Intel iGPU

BIOS: F.23 (03/30/2026)

SOFTWARE

OS: EndeavourOS / Arch Linux

Desktop: XFCE

Session: Wayland

Suspend mode: s2idle only

Kernels tested: 7.1.11-arch1-1 6.18.48-1-lts

NVIDIA driver: 610.57.04

Current kernel parameters include: i915.enable_psr=0 i915.enable_dc=0 nvidia-drm.modeset=1

THE PROBLEM

After suspend/resume, the internal eDP display may remain black or blink repeatedly.

The kernel repeatedly reports:

[i915] [drm] ERROR [CONNECTOR:...:eDP-1][ENCODER:...:DDI A/PHY A][DPRX] Failed to enable link training

The error can repeat roughly every 12 seconds while the display is trying to recover.

I also get this during BOOT, before the desktop is fully running:

[i915] [drm] [ENCODER:...:DDI B/PHY B] failed to retrieve link info, disabling eDP

Immediately around that boot-time error I also get:

drm_WARN_ON(intel_dp->pps.vdd_wakeref)

WARNING: intel_pps_vdd_on_unlocked

The call stack points into:

intel_pps_vdd_on_unlocked() intel_pps_vdd_on() intel_dp_detect() intel_display_driver_register() i915_driver_probe()

After some suspend/resume failures I have also seen:

i915 raw-wakerefs=1 wakelocks=1 on cleanup

and:

intel_runtime_pm_driver_release

WHAT I HAVE TESTED

1. i915.enable_psr=0

   • Did not fix the problem.
   • Resume still took around 2.5 minutes on one test.

2. i915.enable_dc=0

   • Did not fix the underlying problem.
   • On some cycles it reduced the very long hangs, but the system still took around 25 seconds to recover.
   • The kernel still reported the eDP link-training failure.

3. Tested both kernels:

   • linux 7.1.11-arch1-1
   • linux-lts 6.18.48-1-lts
   • Both reproduce the same basic problem.

4. Tested 144 Hz vs 60 Hz

   • 60 Hz did not solve it.
   • One test still resulted in a >10 minute display failure.

5. Tested NVIDIA runtime power management

   • The NVIDIA GPU was successfully put into runtime suspended state.
   • The internal panel still failed to resume correctly.

6. Tested the Intel Xe driver experimentally

   • Forced the Intel GPU to Xe with: i915.force_probe=!46a3 xe.force_probe=46a3
   • This did NOT solve the problem.
   • Instead I got PSR AUX errors, severe display corruption and another very long/infinite-looking recovery loop.
   • I therefore returned to i915.

The laptop only supports s2idle:

cat /sys/power/mem_sleep

returns:

[s2idle]

Attempting "deep" gives:

Invalid argument

IMPORTANT OBSERVATION

The internal display is driven by the Intel iGPU, not directly by the NVIDIA GPU.

The DRM devices show:

card0 -> NVIDIA card1 -> i915

and the internal connector is:

card1-eDP-1

QUESTION

Has anyone seen this combination on an HP Victus 15-fa1xxx or similar Alder Lake/Raptor Lake HP laptop?

In particular, I'm interested in whether the following messages point to a known i915 PPS / panel-power-sequencing / firmware issue:

failed to retrieve link info, disabling eDP
drm_WARN_ON(intel_dp->pps.vdd_wakeref)
intel_pps_vdd_on_unlocked()
Failed to enable link training

Could this be an HP BIOS/firmware interaction with Intel i915 during s2idle?

Is there a known kernel patch, quirk, or workaround for this particular PPS/VDD wakeref + eDP link-training problem?

I'm especially interested in advice from anyone familiar with i915/eDP/DRM power sequencing or HP Victus hybrid Intel/NVIDIA systems.

I would prefer to fix the underlying suspend/resume problem rather than simply disable suspend or lid handling.

ADDITIONAL ACPI WARNINGS

There are also ACPI BIOS errors in the kernel log, including:

AE_NOT_FOUND involving: _SB.PC00.CNVW.IFUN _SB.PC00.CNVW._DSM

and:

AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT involving: _SB.WMID.WQBZ _SB.WMID.WQBE

I'm not sure whether these are related to the display problem or are unrelated HP WMI/ACPI issues.

Thanks!

Basically whenever I lock my system audio stops playing. Is there any way to have this not happen (basically have audio keep playing even though the system is locked)? I did see this but none of the three solutions I tried worked. I'm also pretty new to Linux so any help would be appreciated!

I have my computer connected to my tv. When I am watching something on it and I don't touch my keyboard the display will turn off after around 10 minutes. I have set these settings but nothing changes. I am confused because im pretty sure video playback isn't supposed to result in a display going to sleep so I would like some help.

meant to draw my own wallpaper to fit this conky setup but now i want a different conky

Probably some people just don't like it.

I like how simple it is and you get to customized it.

This is not to hate on other DE but the reason why I left windows is that it just pittered useless.bloatware that isn't needed in my day to day activity. When I used KDe I was like it's kinda like windows it got stuff that I don't really need or want.

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a small project I have been working on: xfce4-power-profiles-plugin.

It is an XFCE4 panel plugin that makes it easy to switch between power profiles directly from the panel.

Here is what it looks like :

Features

• Shows the current power profile
• Quickly switch between Power Saver, Balanced, and Performance
• Automatically updates when the active profile changes
• Uses D-Bus to communicate with the power management service
• Supports power-profiles-daemon, TLP 1.9+, and system76-power
• Written in Rust
• Debian packages are available through the GitHub releases
• Available in the Arch User Repository (AUR)
• GPL-3.0 licensed

Installation

Arch Linux / AUR:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfce4-power-profiles-plugin

Other distributions / source code:

https://github.com/AurelienDuval6/xfce4-power-profiles-plugin

The project is still new, so feedback, bug reports, and feature requests are very welcome.

If you use XFCE, I would be interested to know what you think and whether you find the plugin useful.

Developer of the Aerobird theme here. I noticed that my theme still had instances of flat, borderless buttons and wanted to see what I can do to improve it. After doing some experimenting I ended it up styling it after the Ribbon interface used in Windows 7 programs, and I have to say, it is a game changer. It makes me notice many buttons that I hadn't previously, such as the icons in the Linux Mint Text Editor (xed) toolbar. I never realized how flat, borderless buttons like those in Windows 10/11 and those in many modern Linux themes just makes me ignore them instead. I also added css specifically for Thunar to render the navigation buttons with a glossy blue gradient similar to Windows 7's file explorer.

These will be incorporated into the next Aerobird theme release, but I'm not planning on releasing it until after Linux Mint 23 releases in December so that I won't have to do two versions for Xfce 4.18 and Xfce 4.20. (Unless if you guys really really really want this now)

Unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to get the outlined buttons to appear in the LibreOffice toolbars, but at least the ribbon gradient still applied.

I want to make a script cli, for people who want to have set-up the xface + xrdp running natively on android with simple commands like

./gui set-up (installs everything and set-up stuff)

./gui start (starts what needed + xrdp session (locally of course e.g http://localhost...))

./gui stop

So do you need anything like this? 🤔 Comment below 😁