in xfce compositor there works very handy shortcut for resizing window: alt+right click. I would like to know if there is a possibility to change this to alt+middle click as I'm used from compiz plugins. I have found only the settings of keyboard modifier (easy_click).

best regards
Jan

P.S: Sorry for my rusty english

Sorry for mine

Nope, I confirm I can add custom actions and nothing changes.

Moving the menus to the side is a radical idea! I think you would lose too much readability. Perhaps if the whole name showed when you roll over the menu, or if the names of all of the menus showed when you roll over any menu title. As you suggested, I don't think this is something the window manager does, I think it is handled by GTK, in the "Appearance" panel. To achieve this it may be necessary to fork GTK and recompile apps, which would be a major inconvenience.

Edit: maximus does work. There are a couple of options worth noting: --no-restart and --no-maximize
Both are helpful if you just want to try it out. The <Alt>F10 shortcut (found in Window Manger: Keyboard) is how you get a window back to regular size after maximizing.

Stable releases!

Last week-end, our awesome Nick released new stable versions for almost all Xfce major components: libxfce4util, tumbler, xfce4-appfinder, xfce4-session, xfce4-panel, xfwm4, xfce4-settings, garcon, thunar, xfce4-terminal and tumbler (this is not amnesia, we got two releases in a single day for this component!).

I still need to release libxfce4ui 4.10.1 which would fix some keyboard shortcut issues: numpad shortcuts, shortcuts with Shift, shortcuts with Alt+Print... I need some testers for this stable branch before releasing. So grab the code on git or from this tarball and please confirm if it works fine after restarting your session. Thanks in advance for your help.

The list of changes which can be found in those stable releases in available on the Xfce Announcement mailing list. I wish you all an improved Xfce experience!

Xfce Blog

I wonder if the newer versions mentioned in the Xfce blog will make(/allow) Thunar to produce thumbnails for video files? After realizing that (my installation of) Thunar produced neither "picture" thumbnails for video files nor "hover your mouse cursor over the file and listen to a preview" thumbnails(?) for audio files, I tried to follow some directions I found somewhere on the Internet for making Tumbler work - and then tried following other directions for using a different thumbnail component with it (I cannot remember for sure, I think it might have been gtstreamer? Ffmpeg? :shrugs: ), which also failed to work for me. I have since learned that if I run PCFileman and use it to view a directory that contains video files, it will - rather quickly and with no fuss - create thumbnails for the video files. Those thumbnails will then appear every time I view that particular directory with Thunar afterward. However, as "solutions" go, this is unwieldy and doesn't do anything as far as adding the preview capability to audio files (which may or may not actually be "thumbnails," now that I think about it... But Nautilus does it in GNOME 2.x and when I initially noticed that Thunar couldn't seem to create these, either, I assumed that its not being there was part of the same problem).

Hope someone figures it out and helps us non-techies,
MDM

EDIT: I just followed the links to read some release notes on the newer versions of Tumbler. It looks like 0.1.29 addresses "Fix memory corruption on 64bit (bug #9766)." Version 0.1.30 addresses the following:
- Set nice value of tumblerd to 19 (bug #9627).
- Fix rendering from pdfs with thumbnail (bug #9972).
- Add more supported types for gst thumbnailer (bug #9747).
- Some additional debug checks for bug #9766 and minor optimizations.
- Fix deprecating warning with glib 2.36.
- Include string.h (bug #9858).
...but IDK if all that means it fixed it not working for video files or not. I don't really understand half of what I read these days and if I narrow that to "computer stuff" then it probably drops to about a twentieth.

There's also a version of Thunar newer than the 1.6.2 one that is on my system. Its release notes state:
Release notes for 1.6.3
=======================
- Autotools updates.
- Allow keyboard shortcuts for user customizable actions (bug #1941).
- Prepend and later reverse for collecting selection.
- Some optimizations in renamer loop.
- Plug leak in file renamer (bug #9864).
- Escape name for sidepane tooltips (bug #10001).
- Revert "Remove image resolution from statusbar."
- Fix segfault when going back to removed directory (bug #9831).

All three of the above mentioned newer versions also add various languages, I think. I didn't copy/paste those parts because I don't suppose they have anything to do with the issue.

I kicked off on debian with Xfce, knowing it from xubuntu... while I liked it, I didn't stay long, I reinstalled and set up lxde and haven't come off it for a year now.
It's simple and it has openbox which is nice.  check my lxde page on my site for my install notes (which I hope don't have too many mistakes)

I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 with XFCE 4.10 from Ubuntu's sources, installed manually (i.e. not xubuntu-desktop) on my laptop that has an external screen attached. The big external monitor also has a vertical panel. My external screen is on the right side of my laptop.

When I maximize windows on my external monitor, the panel overlaps those. However, when I maximize windows on my smaller laptop monitor, there seems to be the panel's width reserved in space (which is just empty)

How can I make it reserve space on the right monitor?

My setup looks like this (generated with arandr and modified (right-of and primary are by me, trying to solve the problem):

#!/bin/sh
xrandr --output HDMI1 --primary --right-of LVDS1 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 1440x0 --rotate normal \
--output LVDS1 --mode 1440x900 --pos 0x368 --rotate normal \
--output TV1 --off --output VGA1 --off

Hmmm... don't know why that is, but at least the square background is gone.

I'm using xfce with arch linux on an Asus Zenbook Prime (UX21A) and noticed that by upgrading from xfce4-power-manager-1.2.0-3-x86_64 to
xfce4-power-manager-1.2.0-4-x86_64 a faulty setting is introduced: whenever the screen returns from a blankd out state the program xfpm-power-backlight-helper sets screen backlight to max; here is the journalctl output:

archlinux pkexec[1939]:: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/] [COMMAND=/usr/bin/xfpm-power-backlight-helper --set-brightness 10]

This is annoying because you have to readjust backlight every time manually.

Can anyone shed some light on this? Where can I configure these settings?

Thanks.

Antis