Xfce 4.8 for F14 now ready

[suvayu ali]

Hello Nick,

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Sorry, I have been busy writing my thesis. Couldn't find the time to
look into more detail. I tried the solution you mentioned on the
bugzilla, but it doesn't seem to affect my panels. I executed the
command from the terminal and logged out and logged back in. But I
still get the same behaviour. Any ideas?

> Nick

Thanks,

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Suvayu

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