Xfce4-panel and window placement

How can I get XFCE4 to not place any windows that would be hidden under the panel? My panel extends all the way from the left to the right. I have my workspace margin bottom at 100. Everytime I start up XChat it places itself under the panel... Any ideas?

I hated that thing....seems that xfwm4 doesn't respect but xftaskbar4...its the only thing it won't cover it....what i did is dumping the panel....its not that useful anyway...u can launch apps using the desktop menu...the only thing i miss is "show desktop" button.

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So I know have Arch installed with gnome and compiz, but I have come into 2 annoyances that I hope you will be able to help me out with.
1. How do I use the compiz feature which gives you the expose of the windows open not the workstations.
2. Can I use xfce4 panel with gnome and if so how and how do I get it to start up when gnome is started?
Any and all help is appreciated thanks in advance,
Moosie

Not sue I've correctly understood your problems but here goes:
1) You wanna see all the windows open on all workspaces, kinda like Mac OS X's Exposé (http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/expose.html). What you do not want is to see the workspaces layout, as in Compiz's Expo plugin (http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Expo). Or are you referring to something completely different? (Workstations???) If my assumption is correct: I think your best bet is Compiz's Ring switcher plugin - but try out the various plugins under window management to see which one works for you.
2) Yes, although right now, some people are having problems getting it to work (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111890) If it's already installed, just try running it with 'xfce4-panel' and setup a panel. Once that's done, go to System | Preferences | Startup Applications, click add, and enter 'xfce4-panel' under name and command.

Xfce4-panel with window decoration

Hi,
I have updated my system- pacman -Syu recently. Unfortunately xfce4-panel is running in window now:
Console shows
[archon@archon-netbook ~]$ xfce4-panel
(xfce4-panel:2220): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_set_valist: construct property "type" for object `XfcePanelWindow' can't be set after construction
(xfce4-panel:2220): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common'
I read somewhere it's caused by glib. So i've built glib2-git and glib2-newest from aur. It didn't change anything.
Anyone have suggestions how to fix it? Thanks in advance

why?
Last edited by archon (2010-09-30 12:02:41)

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I have to finish a work document in Indesing in a PC, i don't have my Mac with my preferences and so on. I notice that the default Windows Panels in text doesn't show as much info as i would like to, for example, kerning, tracking, hyphenation, adjust to baseline, etc.
I am sure there is a way to open those extra features in the text pannel info.
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Cheers,
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The panels work identically on Mac and Windows. It looks like there's no enough room to show everything. Open the panel menu and set the preferences for what you want there.
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I am using xfce4,everything is OK.but the panel's plugin window buttons can't works well ,when I used after a while.
normally,when I click the actual window button,the window will be minsize,when I click the button again, it will be back.
but now,I click the button,the window will be minsize ,and it can not be back,however I click it.I must use alt+tab to switch the window.
is it a bug?
Last edited by maplebeats (2012-07-20 03:56:36)

why?
Last edited by archon (2010-09-30 12:02:41)

Properties panel and window options blank

This just started happening in Dreamweaver CS4 and I believe I just updated my Adobe on my machine, Windows 7 with CS4 installed for over a year or so now.
I have suddenly have no access to the properties panel, although it is there if I close the program, then open it fresh. As soon as I start working it becomes blank. Any insights appreciated. See screenshot:

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KDE4 Panels and Windows covering them...

Hello,
Normally, I like to have my panel visible. I'm not one of those people who like to automatically hide them, or have windows cover them. I like to quickly look at what's open, etc...
Except when I play games. I play an online MMO called EVE Online. I'v e got it running well uner WINE (only a few minor things that I need to fix) and it runs great. However, I've had to incorporate several workarounds to get it to display properly since I use TwinView and I wanted to play the game on one monitor only. Here's is the command I use to play it:
wine explorer /desktop=Client1,1680x1050 "C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE\eve.exe"
This works well. I also use KWins awesome window-specific setings to remember additional window parameters, such as forcing Fullscreen off and No Borders on: see, I like running my game in a "window" but to have no borders so that looks like it's fullscreen. This has some benefits including flawless Alt+Tab (some games just don't like to do it) and being able to go quickly to different windows (like a browser to look something up).
However, this Windowed + No Border thing, while working flawlessly, has led to a sticky situation with my KDE panel. Like I said, I like my panels to always show unless I'm playing a game. When the game is in Windowed mode, the panel sits there at the bottom and sticks out like a sore thumb (not to mention getting in the way of in-game controls that the panel covers). I've been forced to auto-hide my panel until I can find a suitable workaround.
And thus to my question: Is there anyway to have specific windows (via KWins "window specific" settings or otherwise) force itself to override (or otherwise ignore) KDE's panels settings when it comes to visibility? There are very few windows that I ever want to cover the panel with, and all of them are for games.
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Last edited by XtrmGmr99 (2010-09-16 22:03:24)

Primoz wrote:
Well there's an ugly option which you'll probably won't like, but still it's there .
Anyway make a (if you don't already have) a desktop file to start your game then add this before it:
kquitapp plasma-desktop&& env WINEPREFIX="/home/primoz/.wine" wine "C:\\path\to\your\game" && plasma-desktop&
As you can see it's an really ugly hack, but it rids you of all plasma problems...
Oh dear lord, I don't want to quit plasma. lol. Way too messy, but at least you're thinking outside the box! =P
BurntSushi wrote:Can you set the KWin window settings for the game to be always on top? That should make it cover the panel.
I could, and it does work, but not that way I'd like because it keeps above EVERYTHING, not just the panel. Like I said above, I do other tasks while I play; browse the web, look stuff up, have a few terminals open, etc... and if the game window is set to always be on top then I can't have those other apps on the screen. Sure, I could use my second screen, but I usually have a webbrowser under the game window that I can quickly alt+tab to and pop up...
Maybe I'm just too picky. >_>

ICloud Control Panel and Windows 8

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[SOLVED] xfce4-panel: Window buttons w/ Compiz

Hi, I've successfully done the seemingly daunting task of getting Compiz to work with XFCE. Everything appears to be set up, got my keyboard shortcuts in order, etc., however I don't like how the xfce4-panel's Window Buttons behave when running with Compiz. I have specifically set it to show only windows visible on the current desktop (or as Compiz calls it, viewports), but it looks like it still shows all windows from all viewports, as if like it treats all of them as one big desktop. I know this is a problem with xfce4-panel still thinking that it's communicating with xfwm, but I do like to resolve this annoying pet peeve. Are there any workarounds/fixes/patches for this that could help? Thanks in advance.
Last edited by qtcaroline22 (2012-05-17 01:53:05)

I made Compiz autostart with XFCE using the first method with the Fusion icon as described in Compiz's Arch Wiki article. Perhaps it is related to Xfwm and Compiz running together? I'll try the other methods and see if the problem persists.
EDIT: I fixed it, I just followed the solution on this thread and everything works perfectly now. Seems like Googling with the right keywords will almost always point me to the solution.
Last edited by qtcaroline22 (2012-05-17 01:52:14)

My Xfce4-panel wont let me 'move' panel plugins...

I can right-click on them, select 'move' and drag the little hand around, but the whole panel is greyed and no matter where I click, the move is unsuccessful and the plugin just goes to its original position.
I've tried deleting stuff in .config/xfce4/panel and .cache, so that the panel starts completely default, but it has the same issue.
Any ideas?

Thanks for the tip on moving those around. Indeed it is a bug in gtk2.22 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634765 . Here is the xfce bug report also on this http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6818 .

[SOLVED] XFCE4.10 main panel and freeze problem

Hello everyone.
I just have upgraded to XFCE4.10 and after rebooting (as the update included also a new kernel) the main panel is double its size just like the icons. I would have included a screenshot but here is where my second problem appears.
Whenever I try to open a window the system just freezes.
The strange thing is that when I try random things (checking 'Appearance' to see if my Oxygen theme wasn't working anymore with 4.10 or fixing the missing 'Separator' issue for correct window display - former freezed though after clicking on 'Accept') it works but the 'real' things (opening browser - both from applications menu or xfce shortcut panel - or Thunar) do not.
I also noted that when trying to save the 'Separator' fix when I hit the actions button to close the session I was directly just given that option instead of displaying the full menu of restart etc.
Should I consider this a new issue or something I have to setup in 4.10 in comparison to 4.8 where it work perfectly?
I am considering a kernel downgrade to see if it fixes the freeze issue though I doubt, if it does, it would relate to the panel size issue (or that 'only close session' allowance that I have just referred to). The reason for not having tried the downgrade yet is that the system apparently works fine as long as I do not open any window "for real", as said.
Any suggestions?
Last edited by root (2012-05-02 17:34:03)

%$$& Wrote everything nicely down and got logged out xD
Let's see how much I remember.
First of all, right now writing from my downgraded 3.3.3-1 kernel. I didn't succeed doing the downgrade while the 3.3.4-1 was loaded thus I had to do it using the change root method. That way I also discovered the, apparent, reason for the user modules fail at startup and the freezing at the login screen I reported in #3. Somehow the system was using the 3.3.3-1 kernel (I do not know when it installed successfully) but the 3.3.4-1 headers. Most likely I made a mistake somewhere during my previous change root attempt when fixing a *new* unable to find root device that popped up then.
As said, I have been able to downgrade using the Arch Install CD and through the change root method but received the warning,
directory permissions differ on usr/src/linux-3.3.3-1-ARCH/
filesystem: 700 package: 755
after the install/downgrade of each package (linux-docs, linux-headers and linux). Should I consider this a new problem? System works fine so far thus I am not sure about this.
Prior to successfully downgrading I tried to install the LTS kernel but wasn't successful with the 3.3.4-1 kernel loaded. Just like with the downgrade I tried using the change root method and could install it.
But despite updating grub's menu.lst accordingly I was receiving an 'unable to find root device message' which could not be fixed through the change root method just like with the 3.3.4-1 kernel (in case of the LTS one changing the final step from mkinitcpio -p linux to mkinitcpio -p linux-lts as far as I understand it). I might give it another try installing it in this working environment later on and report back with the results.
@ConnorBehan
As I have just stated the user modules fail message and the login screen freeze were surely my fault but the error messages I referred to from the beginning with the 3.3.4-1 kernel were like these,
.... = increasing numbers/disk sectors(?) (left/right)
.... ext4_reserve_inode_write .... [ext4]
.... ext4_reserve_inode_dirty .... [ext4]
.... ? unix_write_space ....
.... ? ext4_dirty_inode .... [ext4]
.... ? ext4_dirty_inode .... [ext4]
.... ext4_dirty_inode .... [ext4]
.... __mark_inode_dirty ....
.... ? mnt_clone_write ....
.... file_update_time ....
.... __generic_file_aio_write ....
.... generic_file_aio_write ....
.... ? ext4_file_mmap .... [ext4]
.... ext4_file_write .... [ext4]
.... ? ext4_file_mmap .... [ext4]
.... do_sync_readv_writev ....
.... ? security_file_permission ....
.... ? _copy_from_user ....
.... ? rw_verify_area ....
.... do_readv_writev ....
.... ? ext4_file_mmap [ext4]
.... ? sockfd_lookup_light ....
.... vfs_writev ....
.... sys_writev ....
.... sysenter_do_call ....
@foutrelis
You may be right with regard to the drive as it is a quite old laptop I am running Arch on. Now that you refer to the drive could the freeze/errors I reported to ConnorBehan be related to the tweaking of the vm.vfs_cache_pressure value I did?
I am just taking a wild guess myself comparing my ide drive to your ssd one. I had never had this kind of problem prior to 3.3.4-1. Just as if this kernel could not handle my tweak anymore (value is 50 and worked fine so far).

Xfce4 Edit The Window Buttons Panel Menu?

Hi, new Arch Linux user here. I dabbed a little in Ubuntu and stuff before but finally took the plunge and wiped my WIndows partitions and started running solely Linux a few days ago. There's still a few things I haven't been able to work out (figure out how to run LoL and Photoshop, especially Photoshop - I tried GIMP and could not make heads or tails out of it) but worst comes worst I'll probably just install Windows to a USB or VM and run it from there when I need it (I do not trust myself to stick to Linux when I have a Windows enviroment dualbooted... lol).
Anyways, I was wondering if there's any way of editing how xfce4 displays the right click menu in its panel. I tried google but couldn't really find anything.
i.e.
Instead of:
Minimize
Maximize
Move
Resize
Always on Top
Close
Change it to simply:
Close
I find the first 5 options completely useless, the first 2 duplicating the function of just left-clicking the panel and the latter 2's function can be found with alt+space, and the final one I can just right-click the window's title bar to pin it to the top.
Anyways, it's just a convenience thing, I usually have a billion windows open at once and being able to close them faster would be nice. It's one of those things IMO the Windows superbar got right.

Hi, new Arch Linux user here. I dabbed a little in Ubuntu and stuff before but finally took the plunge and wiped my WIndows partitions and started running solely Linux a few days ago. There's still a few things I haven't been able to work out (figure out how to run LoL and Photoshop, especially Photoshop - I tried GIMP and could not make heads or tails out of it) but worst comes worst I'll probably just install Windows to a USB or VM and run it from there when I need it (I do not trust myself to stick to Linux when I have a Windows enviroment dualbooted... lol).
Anyways, I was wondering if there's any way of editing how xfce4 displays the right click menu in its panel. I tried google but couldn't really find anything.
i.e.
Instead of:
Minimize
Maximize
Move
Resize
Always on Top
Close
Change it to simply:
Close
I find the first 5 options completely useless, the first 2 duplicating the function of just left-clicking the panel and the latter 2's function can be found with alt+space, and the final one I can just right-click the window's title bar to pin it to the top.
Anyways, it's just a convenience thing, I usually have a billion windows open at once and being able to close them faster would be nice. It's one of those things IMO the Windows superbar got right.

Xfce4-panel behind other windows

Like the topic says, I'd like to make windows in xfwm4 appear on top of xfce4-panel, not beneath it. The reason is that my panel is getting fat and screen size can't keep up
Is there any setting, I need to tweak to achieve this?
Thanks.

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