XFce on debian installs panel inaccessibly (and fix)

[wolfgang]

maybe you should Cc: the debian package maintainer? or is that a self-compiled 
xfce ?

regards,
wolfgang


In an older episode (Monday 12 August 2002 15:24), Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 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
> >
> >--
> >Patrick Wiseman
> >pwiseman at mindspring.com
> >Linux user #17943
> >
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