Re: XFce on debian installs panel inaccessibly (and fix)
Patrick Wiseman, 2002-Aug-12 09:07 -0400:
> Hi, all:
>
> I've recently had occasion to install XFce on two new Debian (woody)
> machines and had the same weird thing happen each time, so I guess it's
> not a coincidence. After installing XFce, I ran xfce_setup as an ordinary
> user. When I start X, the xfce panel is way down in the bottom right
> corner of the screen with only the top-left logout button visible. A
> right-click on the desktop confirms the panel's odd geometry (and this on
> a machine with 800x600 and another with 1024x768).
>
> A "fix" is to edit the [GEOMETRY] section of ~/.xfce/xfwm-session for the
> panel so that the first two numbers are zero. Then when you restart X
> (actually I had to do that twice before it worked) the panel shows up at
> the top left of the screen and you can move it where you want it.
>
> But, obviously, that's not a very intuitive fix. I wonder how many people
> have tried XFce on Debian (some on my recommendation!) and thought, "well,
> that's screwy" and gone to another wm?
>
> The first time I just thought it was odd and fixed it; but when I saw it
> the second time I thought, "this is a bug" - so, should I file a bug
> report?
I use XFce on a few different systems and this only happened on a
laptop system. I fixed it using the method you describe above. I
figured it was an anomoly since it didn't happen on 2 other systems.
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to file a bug report. I don't know how it
figures the initial geometry at install, but that might be a good
place to look first.
jc
--
Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Reply to: