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Can't put floating panel to screen top/bottom - it becomes docked
Status:
RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Priority:
Medium
Severity:
major
Product:
Xfce4-panel
Component:
Panel

Comments

Description Oleg Mikheev 2011-01-21 23:58:36 CET 
In XFCE 4.6 it was possible to put a floating panel at screen top or bottom.
Starting from 4.8 when you try to move panel to screen bottom it becomes docked.
This is a major loss of functionality because having a floating panel at screen top/bottom makes it possible to maximize windows to the whole screen with panel not stealing viewable area. This makes it almost identical to Avant or Mac.
The workaround for now is manual editing panels.xml
Comment 1 Oleg Mikheev 2011-01-22 00:22:40 CET 
Sorry, not panels.xml but ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml
Comment 2 Nick Schermer editbugs 2011-01-22 00:31:48 CET 
You can also disable struts with: "xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-0/disable-struts -t bool -n -s true".
Comment 3 Nick Schermer editbugs 2011-01-23 13:00:38 CET 
Well you can disable struts and this is just the way the new panel works, so no real regression here.
Comment 4 Oleg Mikheev 2011-01-23 13:41:13 CET 
There's no doubt that I can disable struts
But the users can't, unless they learn Xfce internals or go to this issue
That was the point of the issue
Comment 5 Nick Schermer editbugs 2011-01-23 13:56:37 CET 
It was already planned to make this option more visible in 4.10 and it will also be noted in the manual; when i find time to write it.
Comment 6 Nick Schermer editbugs 2011-01-29 10:31:57 CET 
*** Bug 7201 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Nick Schermer editbugs 2011-01-29 10:36:07 CET 
Opened bug #7202 for the configure option.

Bug #7153

Reported by:
Oleg Mikheev
Reported on: 2011-01-21
Last modified on: 2011-01-29
Duplicates (1):
  • 7201 XFCE Panel can no longer be placed at top/bottom of desktop and still be floating

People

Assignee:
Nick Schermer
CC List:
1 user

Version

Version:
4.8.0
Target Milestone:
Panel 4.8

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