Programs crash when changing orientation of xfce4-panel

Stephan Arts psybsd at gmail.com
Tue Dec 5 13:53:29 CET 2006


On 12/5/06, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
>
> > And because of the other apps which also crashed I assume that isn't
> > really a bug in the apps but rather in GTK or xfwm4. Can anyone confirm?
>
> Could be related to this bug:
>
> http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2598
>
> The panel doesn't set its struts correctly when orientation changes, and xfwm4 updates the maximized windows as the struts are updated. Maybe the computed workarea with broken struts is too small and cause a crash in the applications, but that proves a weakness in the applications or their toolkit.

I've tested it, and it only happends when the orientation of the first
panel is changed.

i hope this information can help

Cheers,
Stephan



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