Re: XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11

[Daniel Fishman <quantera@gmail.com>]

This is the following issue:

https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/201

On 3/4/22 00:39, José Luis González wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 17:30:38 +0500
> "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 28.02.2022 02:32, José Luis González wrote:
> > > Hi,
>
> Hi Alexander,
>
> > > Upon upgrading to Debian 11, the ALT+F1 key, which is assigned as a
> > > shortcut to xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu, according to XFCE's settings,
> > > no longer shows the applications menu and instead the app menu button
> > > on my panel appears pressed without the menu unfolded. A second key
> > > press shows the CTRL-ESC (xfdesktop --menu) menu, not the app menu.
> > >
> > > What's going on? I'm suffering from the same in both machines I have
> > > with Debian 11.
> > It looks like "xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu" is a simple wrapper Bash
> > script.
> > All it does is trying to execute "xfce4-panel" with a long line of
> > parameters and if that fails, fallback to execute "xfdesktop --menu"
> > instead.
> > Man page for "xfce4-panel" doesn't explain anything about
> > "--plugin-event" parameter, so it looks like it was reworked somehow.
> > The problem is that "xfce4-panel" never fails to execute with that
> > undocumented parameter, so fallback option doesn't work.
> > You can file a bug report about this, or change a command, assigned to
> > 'Alt+F1' key combination, to
> >       "/usr/bin/xfce4-panel --plugin-event=applicationsmenu:popup"
>
> The replacement command you propose doesn't work any better for me. I'm
> going to file a bug report.
>
> Best,
> José Luis