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Guille1995

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Registered: 2026-01-31

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Newbie issues with xfce in Fedora

Hi all!

After a few years orbiting around the Linux world, I have finally jumped into it and installed Fedora 43 in my old HP laptop (Intel Core i3, 8GB RAM, hard drive is 128GB M.2). The Fedora Xfce spin, Fedora 43 with Xfce 4.20. And I'm finding a few issues I'm not able to solve on my own, despite extensive (imo) searching in forums and docs.

Of course the first thing I did after deployment was sudo dnf distro-sync and reboot.

• For starters, at home I usually have the lid of my laptop closed, and a 27" Philips display connected via HDMI. The default settings are such that Xfce finds two active screens, the integrated one and the HDMI one, and keeps the laptop one active (and main) despite the laptop lid being closed and despite me choosing the Philips one as main in the display settings. Rebooting the system does nothing, the Philips is still main in display settings but the integrated keeps acting as main despite being folded.

• The only workaround I found was disabling the integrated screen in the display settings. Only then the HDMI display becomes main and persistent. But I don't want to do this, because sometimes I want to use both screens. And if by some reason I open the lid, I find the integrated screen is active and mirroring the HDMI display. Same windows, the taskbar, the mouse, everything. Despite being disabled in the display settings.

• And, on top of it all, when I open the lid my wifi connection drops. A pop up in the upper right corner says my wifi has dropped, and nmcli radio wifi in the terminal shows my wifi adapter is disabled. I have to type sudo nmcli radio wifi on every single time I open the lid, it doesn't grab persistence either.

• A last thing I noticed: under Windows, I could tap my touchpad and it would count as a left clic. Here it doesn't happen anymore. Well, it started working again yesterday... After I installed rpmfusion to be able to play some .mkv files in vlc?

Any inputs and thoughts are welcome. I feel comfortable playing with xfce4-settings-editor or xfdesktop via CLI, I just don't know where to begin. Let me know if you need any logs or system specs. Thank you.