Gnome top panel is offset down after fresh login using XFWM4

[Marc Schwartz]

On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 04:37, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> 
> On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 03:10, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> 
> > 1. I will file a bug with Fedora's (really RH) Bugzilla on this. In
> > order to best assist the Gnome folks both in Fedora/RH and upstream,
> > what detail information should I provide to them? Is it sufficient to
> > use your text above? I presume that I file this against Gnome Panel as a
> > component. Pardon my lack of low level knowledge here.
> 
> The problem is really in GNOME, not specific to Fedora (I used GNOME
> sources). I think it shouled be filled as a GNOME bug.
> 
> The description is fairly easy, something like:
> 
> "The GNOME panel from GNOME 2.4 doesn't set the ICCCM standard flag
> PPosition so the panel are not placed correctly. Metacity doesn't show
> the problem as it doesn't place windows of type DOCK, SPLASHSCREEN, etc.
> anyway, so they get placed correctly anyway, but that's no standard. The
> standard is to use PPosition."
> 
> "The problem shows in xfwm4, kwin and plenty of other window managers"
> 
> > 2. I will also post a note to the Fedora list on the bug and with the
> > URL to your new tarball above (unless you have an objection). This way
> > the folks who have the XFWM4 RPMS can roll up a new testing RPM for
> > folks if appropriate.
> 
> You can, sure, but the tarball I put is prolly not the final 4.0.2
> release, so that might be confusing (in other words, I don't want to
> release several different 4.0.2 versions!)
> 
> > A. Can the gnome panel applets (ie. RHN alert icon) be used with the
> > XFCE4 panel?  I presume not, but thought that I would ask to be sure.
> 
> GNOME applets won't work, just the systray protocol is standardized.
> 
> > B. Is there a way to make gnome-terminal the default terminal
> > application under XFCE rather than xterm? I know that I can change the
> > terminal run from the panel, but when I tried to run some scripts in a
> > console from the panel (ie. some spamassassin stuff), they came up in
> > xterm. I searched the list and forum and did not see a way to do this.
> 
> Yes, definietly. put 
> 
> export TERMCMD="gnome-terminal"
> 
> somewhere prior to start xfce4 (like in /etc/xfce4/xinitrc for example)
> 
> > Thanks again for all of your help on this!
> 
> You're welcome.


Olivier, 

I have filed the bug with Gnome's Bugzilla:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128734

I have some other comments/queries, but I will start a new thread on
those... :-)

Thanks again,

Marc