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Re: Xfce panel



 --- Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za> wrote: > On Tue,
Apr 08, 2003 at 09:35:29PM -0700, ralph
> bacolod wrote:
> > Gud day! I just switched from redhat 7.2 to debian
> > 3.0. . 
> 
> Welcome!
> 
> > Im trying out xfce for the first time
> > .Installing it thru apt-get was so easy. . When i
> > finally got it working im surprise to find n0
> panel.
> > .Isnt the panel on by default? How do i activate
> it? 
> 
> Last year in August Jeff Coppock and Patrick Wiseman
> wrote in this list:
> 
> 
> -----------------------
> 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
>
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> 
> This solution worked for me.
>> Thanks.
>> I also read a similar post in the archives..
>> i'll try that.
>>
>> Ralph Bacolod


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