Xfce 4.8 for F14 now ready

[Nick Schermer]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:12 PM, suvayu ali
<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 4. I used to have one floating panel (with the tray and clock) and a
>>>    fixed panel. Now it seems there is no way to have a floating panel.
>>>    The previously floating panel seem to be blocking the windows from
>>>    going completely fullscreen.
>>
>> I think this is intended, but you can file bug in Xfce bugzilla.
>>
>
> Okay, I 'll try to file a bug upstream.

Floating panel are not attached to a screen border, if you want a
panel on a screen border without keeping the area free (ie blocking
fullscreen) you can disable struts per-panel:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7202

In 4.10 this will be an option in the interface, since here is a high
demand for this.

Nick