missing features in xfce4

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Hey Pablo,

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 16:14:41 +0100
"Pablo" <pastulap at poczta.onet.pl> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> There are a few things which bug me in xfce4. Although I'm not sure if
> the first one is xfce problem. When I launch some gtk application, ie.
> GIMP, and save an image file, several dialogs open with save settings.
> What bugs me the most is that when some of these dialogs open, they're
> placed partially off the screen. I have to move a dialog to be able to
> press ok or other button. Can't xfce make an application to open
> dialogs entirely on the screen? The same situation appears when I
> launch gkrellm. If I don't set -geometry +0+30, and have taskbar open,
> gkrellm is placed in a way I can't move its location. Also Java
> applications (1.4.) used to open in a way that a title bar was outside
> the screen. It didn't appear on JDK 1.3 but if the window manager
> could force an application to open on the screen it would be great.
> 

You can move windows from anywhere inside a window when pressing Alt
while dragging the window. This also allows you to move a window so you
can resize it.


> The second thing is connected with resizing of a window. I'm missing a
> feature from xfce 3.x where I could resize a window by dragging upper
> edge of a window. In xfce4 I can resize dragging only left, right or
> bottom edge of a window (and of course corners). When I open xdvi, I
> can't see the whole application screen as its height is higher than my
> vertical resolution. I can't resize it vertically as I can't move the
> window upper and resize dragging the botton edge, and I can't resize
> it dragging upper edge. I'm stuck.
> 
> Another thing is that after closing xfce panel I can't get it back but
> I believe it was mentioned in other posts.
> 

If you close it, it's not running anymore, right? So you can get it back
by starting it again ... If you're talking about minimizing the panel,
that functionality was removed.

> I haven't tried hard enough to find a solution to the next problem but
> here it goes. It's easy to remove a button from xfce panel (i.e. a
> clock) by simply using remove button. But I could't find "Add" button.
> Of course there is a configuration file to do it, but it's not a user
> friendly way.
> 

Right-click on one of the panel handles. If you have suggestions about a
dialog for panel items, I'd be very interested. I'm still thinking about
it.

	Jasper

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