Xfce 4.8 for F14 now ready

Nick Schermer nickschermer at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 15:34:13 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:52 PM, suvayu ali
<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

You don't need to logout and panel-0 needs to have the correct panel
number (use number of preferences dialog - 1).

Nick


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