Panel issues

[Wade Nelson]

purslow at sympatico.ca wrote:
> 040712 Olivier wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:49, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
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>>>- partial struts don't work with metacity
>>>Very funny this.
>>>Metacity moves the panel away from the screen edge to avoid its own struts
>>>Sounds like a metacity bug, not sure I should care about it.
>>
>>I noticed about that, metacity applies struts to the own window
>>that set it if it's not a dock. Definitely a bug in metacity.
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> for an interested observer, could someone explain what is a 'strut' ?
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"margins" (i think) in xfce4... basically its the area on your desktop 
that a maximized window is not allowed to cover.