"xfce4-panel -x" ends session when xfce4-session is not in use

[Mads Michelsen]

Hi David,

Yes, well, the thing is 'exit the program' used to (i.e. with xfce4-session
running)  mean just that. Besides, 'xfce4-panel -q' is 'end the session' so
obviously there should be a difference.

Dunno about panel config but I guess you might as well play nice and just
'exit' politely :)

- Mads

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 6:25 PM, David Mohr <damailings at mcbf.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Mads Michelsen <chochem at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been spending some time figuring out the various parts of xfce4 and
> > recently tried starting xfce4 without using the session manager as
> suggested
> > in the xinitrc script (it didn't say how to 'not use it' so I just
> commented
> > the lines starting with the one saying "Run xfce4-session if installed")
> > Sort of partly because I was curious, partly because I prefer the
> control in
> > starting by script as opposed to session saving. Everything went well
> and
> > startup was as expected by the remaining part of the xinitrc script.
> > However, something I do not understand: I occasionally want to 'turn
> off'
> > the panels to gain screen space. Since you can't hide the panels, I've
> added
> > a keyboard shortcut to start and exit the panels, 'xfce4-panel' and
> > 'xfce4-panel -x' respectively, which worked pretty well while the
> session
> > manager was running. However, when it isn't, exiting the panel, drops
> the
> > whole session on the floor and I'm returned to gdm. I figure I just
> don't
> > udnerstand how the various parts do what jobs but I fail to see the
> logic
> > here? The window manager and the mcs thingy, whatever it is that it
> does,
> > are still runnning. So why is the panel suddenly vital?
>
> I'm just another user, but xfce4-panel --help says:
> -x, --exit      Close all panels and end the program
> My guess is you're experiencing the "end the program" part ;-).
>
> I am doing something similar to remove the panels temporarily, but I'm
> just using a blunt "killall xfce4-panel", which seems to work fine for
> me. Now that I think about it, I do wonder if there are cases where
> this would lose recent changes to the panel configuration, but it has
> never happened to me.
>
> ~David
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