It's well enough known. The Xfce4 desktop icons have to be Windows-style double-clicked to get them to work.

BUT .. Gnome-Style, by setting a preference option in Thunar file manager, single-click operation on icons in open file manager windows becomes possible

AND .. single-click on icons in a taskbar panel works.

Does anyone know where in the Xfce4 source code, and /or the GTK libraries, or wherever, is this behavior decided? If I can find it, maybe I can compile an Xfce4 just for me, with the double-click feature suitable messed with.

.. and of course, share it with anyone who would like to be complicit in the messing.

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This is stored in a user preferences setting somewhere. Where? Probably under .config

I don't know, since I simply install one computer the way I like it and then clone my entire /home folder (which contains all these preferences) to all the other computers :P

I do it another way. I have a data partition used much like a /home directory.

Then, in any of the other partitions where a distro might be, I let it have its own /home directory created in its root. It remains small, only holding the hidden files of configuration setups, fonts, preferences, etc. That way they do not then get overwritten, or added to , by other distros.

Xfce requires a doubleclick on the desktop, though not in its iconbar. One work-around I have tried is unsetting the "let Xfce manage the desktop" tickbox, and then allowing the PCmanFM file manager to do it.