XFce on debian installs panel inaccessibly (and fix)

[Jasper Huijsmans]

I have the feeling this must have something to do with a debian
customization. I never seen or heard this problem before.

Just a strange thought, but can it be that the packager put in his own
xfwm-session file. There shouldn't be such a file after initial xfce_setup.

Jasper

At 09:07 AM 8/12/02 -0400, you wrote:
>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?
>
>
>Patrick
>
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>Patrick Wiseman
>pwiseman at mindspring.com
>Linux user #17943
>
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