[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 15996] New: On the management of panels in multi-monitor settings

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15996

            Bug ID: 15996
           Summary: On the management of panels in multi-monitor settings
    Classification: Xfce Core
           Product: Xfce4-panel
           Version: Unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Medium
         Component: Action Buttons
          Assignee: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
          Reporter: sexxxenator at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: Panel 4.14

Created attachment 9059
  --> https://bugzilla.xfce.org/attachment.cgi?id=9059&action=edit
Example of annoying panel superposition

Hi,

I love XFCE, it's fully featured and very light at the same time. Thanks for
the job!

Unfortunately, I'm quite frustrated by the way panels are managed in
multi-monitor mode: for the moment, you can only span/or not a panel over
multiple monitors.

What I (and, apparently, many others in the forums) need is to be able to
access all the relevant info / actions (buttons) on all my monitors, so that I
don't need to move the mouse over millions of pixels and multiple displays to
access an info or execute an action.

The only word-around I've found for the moment in forums is to duplicate my
panels (a bottom Dock with my favorite apps and a top panel with menus,
window&vdesktop lists and notification area).

This work-around is quite insatisfactory in two ways:

- first, it is quite a mess to configure at first, but also to maintain over
time (if I want to add an app to my favorites and possess 5 monitors, I have to
(re)configure 5 panels)

- second, when I unplug a monitor, then the panels that were positioned on this
monitor get "pasted" over to another (always the primary?) monitor. This
creates quite a mess as panels end up on top on one another. This is
particularly true when panels are set to be transparent and we can see both of
them. Also, as the "notification area" can be put only on one single panel, if
this gets covered (this is often the case) by the "pasted" panel, then infos
and actions it provides become inaccessible...

I recently discovered that XUbuntu folks have created the "XFCE panel switch".
That's a good start, but it is quite annoying to have to require user's
intervention every time a monitor is plugged/unplugged...

The dream would be to have an option as simple as "span over monitors" that
would read "replicate on all monitors" and do the job automagically.

I see two possible work-arounds that would still be satisfiable: still require
to manually replicate panels, but:

- either change default XFCE behaviour: when a monitor is unplugged, the new
display surface is smaller than before, thus the positions where the panels of
the removed monitor were supposed to be placed disappear, and it would seem
reasonable to automatically hide the panels that are positioned outside the
current screen size, instead of positioning them at positions that they are not
supposed to be.

- or enable automatic switching between 2 configurations in "XFCE panel switch"


Thanks


LIAR666

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