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By default, when scrolling with the mouse wheel on a window that's on the background, that window is raised becoming the top window. To prevent the window from raising, open a terminal window and run: xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/raise_with_any_button -s false The same result can also be accomplished with "Settings Editor" (xfce4-settings-editor), selecting the xfwm4 channel and unpicking the raise_with_any_button value.

When I installed Xubuntu 12.04 on my laptop (HP Touchsmart tm2) I noticed that even though I had sound playback and the OSD worked, the sound volume didn't increased/decreased after hitting the proper keyboard keys. This was because the keys were actually adjusting the volume of the HDMI output. This can fixed by changing the value of active-card in the xfce4-mixer settings, but first the correct value must be determined: Open "Sound Settings" (Alt+F2 and type: pavucontrol). Select the "Output Devices" Tab. Annotate the device's name, leaving out spaces and all characters from this list: ()[]-/ Now add "Playback" to the beginning and "PulseAudioMixer" to the end of name annotated in the previous step. For me the correct value is: Playback BuiltinAudioAnalogStereo PulseAudioMixer Now that we possess the correct, lets change the xfce4-mixer settings: Open the "Settings Editor" (Alt+F2 and type: x...