Panel problem in 4.0.4

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Tue Mar 16 11:35:29 CET 2004


On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:31:30AM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:22:52PM -0500, Andrew Conkling
> <andrewski at fr.st> wrote:
> 
> > I just upgraded to 4.0.4 (thanks to Charles Edwards for the MDK rpms!). 
> > I'm having a problem in the panel.  I have it set to auto-hide, but now
> > it won't do it unless I switch the orientation to vertical.  Anyone know
> > how to fix this?  Weird that it only started after upgrading....
> 
> I would like to add that sometimes panel (mine's vertical) will not
> hide until clicked on, seems to be focus problem or somesuch.
> Perhaps related to particular application, don't know yet for sure.
> KDE, which I used before, didn't have this problem. I'm not
> promoting KDE, it has own (bigger) problems.

This can happen if you use one of the right-click menus on the panel.
Because the menu takes focus, the panel doesn't 'see' the mouse leaving
and that's why it doesn't hide. Moving the mouse over the panel should
be enough to make it hide again.

	Jasper



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