Panel autohide

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Jasper,

Resize *before* moving

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 13:10, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Hello all, Olivier,
> 
> Thanks to Erik Touve I have a patch that implements autohide for the
> panel. I haven't made it accessible from the settings dialog yet, so to
> test it you have to manually add `autohide="1"' to the <Panel /> tag in
> your xfce4rc file.
> 
> I have a problem, though. I try to make the panel collapse towards the
> nearest edge (the panel stays in place, but it shrinks in the direction
> of the nearest edge). This works fine, except when the panel is on the
> edge (the intended position, really). Apparently xfwm thinks the panel
> is still its original size and refuses to move it of the screen.
> Consequently, the panel shrinks, but is not moved to the edge as
> intended.
> 
> ascii 'art' explanation
> 
> unhidden:
>   _________________
>  | |             | |    (panel)
>  | |             | |
>  |_|_____________|_|
> ======================= (edge)
> 
> desired situation when hidden:
> 
>   _________________
>  |_________________|
> =======================
> 
> situation now when hidden:
>   __________________
>  |__________________|
> 
> 
> =======================
> 
> I do first hide the contents, then resize and then move, so I think it
> should have worked. I put in a gdk_flush() to ensure the resize has been
> done, but that didn't help.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 	Jasper
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