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rehfiuahwrfiw

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Registered: 2026-06-05

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Which user group setting gui is best for xfce?

Why there is no official setting gui? Even a plugin.

eriefisher

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Re: Which user group setting gui is best for xfce?

Do you mean a graphical app to add/edit users and groups?

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Registered: 2026-04-13

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Re: Which user group setting gui is best for xfce?

1) Are you asking why xfce has none and would like to file an enhancement request?
I think that would go through github and you could post a link here to ask for upvotes or comments.
Usually a request like this contains version number, linux distro  and a use case (what are you doing and what benefit this feature would give, in which situations it would be useful or something similar) . I'm sure a moderator can point you in the right direction there.

2) Otherwise there are two proposals in this article:
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/user-management-gui

I've tried both in the past, the gnome user management is OK for a single laptop.
Honestly in my recent versions I totally forgot/forgone the installation as I never really used it. Software Installations will often create the groups for you, or instructions will contain the command line for a copy/paste.

The second option: Cockpit installs a webserver that has much more data than user management, it also contains log files and system info, service management (restart/logs) and has additional plugins on github.
Pretty nice if you want something like that actually ,  but overkill for just single user-management (if you do want to see it, I would install it on a test system first to see if that is what you want).

If you are setting up multiple users on one laptop I would also look into the "/etc/skel" option (empty by default, but you can create files (.bashrc,.profile..) and folders in there and they will be copied to the new /home directory at creation).