ANNOUNCE: xfdesktop 4.21.1 released

Brian Tarricone brian at tarricone.org
Sun Oct 11 00:39:26 CEST 2026


xfdesktop 4.21.1 is now available for download from
  
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.21/xfdesktop-4.21.1.tar.xz
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.21/xfdesktop-4.21.1.tar.xz?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.21/xfdesktop-4.21.1.tar.xz?sha256


What is xfdesktop?
==================

Xfce's desktop manager.  Xfdesktop draws the background color and image,
as well as the icons on the desktop.  It also provides an applications
menu when right-clicking on the desktop.

Website: 
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/start


Release notes for 4.21.1
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[Please note that this is a development release.]

- Fix incorrect filename in po/POTFILES
- Fix incorrect GValue type
- Install a .desktop file so the session client can reference it
- Use XfceSessionClient instead of XfceSMClient
- Remove accidentally checked-in patch file
- Add checkbox to toggle user-assigned emblems, per review feedback
- Add settings to hide symlink, read-only, and unreadable emblems
- file-icons: Explain deferred-view DND disable
- file-icons: Defer removal notification across reload
- file-icons: Preserve positions when reloading model
- file-icons: Address monitor reconciliation review comments
- file-icons: Freeze reconciliation through the icon view manager
- file-icons: Defer monitor updates until reconciliation
- Translate command line output
- Remove G_GNUC_CONST from quark getters too
- Remove G_GNUC_CONST
- Rename settings dialog .desktop file instead
- Set settings dialog prgname to xfce-backdrop-settings
- Deduplicate monitor layout candidates
- Translation Updates:
  Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Azerbaijani,
  Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese
  (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
  Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom),
  Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew,
  Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese,
  Kazakh, Korean, Lao, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian
  Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese,
  Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish,
  Swedish, Tatar, Thai, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Venetian, Vietnamese


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