Panel and Taskbar interaction

[Brian Masinick]

Ideally, I'd like to have both the panel and the taskbar located near 
the bottom of the screen, one directly above the other.  Perhaps that is 
still possible, but since I installed XFCE 4.2 instead of the Debian 
4.0.6 version that I had previously used (for quite some time with very 
good results, I might add), I've had difficulty getting the panel and 
task bar to do what I want.

As a compromise, I put the taskbar at the top and set it to auto hide.  
I believe what I used to do is put the taskbar on the bottom of the 
display and put the panel directly above it, and it worked.  Now I can 
set the panel at the top or the bottom (or left or right, but I don't 
like that orientation), and I can move it side to side to a certain 
degree, but I can't seem to move it from the top, bottom, left, or right 
side anchor positions.  Is that now the default behavior, or are there 
any other options that I can set to adjust that will permit me to have 
both panel and taskbar near the bottom (without being on top of each 
other and without having to auto hide one or both of them)?

I'd appreciate any insights or suggestions.  I can live with what's 
there now, but for me, it's a small step b backward in display 
geometry.  Otherwise, it has been working extremely well in all other 
respects.

-- 
Brian Masinick
mailto:masinick at yahoo.com