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lefoid

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Registered: 2012-04-08

Posts: 8

[Solved] Notification area or clock position on upper board (solved)

Hello,

I have a small problem. I am using Xfce for quite a long time, using Funtoo.
It just updated to 4.10pre.

On my upper board, I have a notification area, as well as clock plugin.
These used to be on the right part of the board. It is now somewhere in the middle,
and I am unable to move them to the right side, where I would like them to be.

Is there anything in particular that I should do ?

Don't hesitate if more infos are needed.
Sorry if this has been already discussed in the forum, but I didn't find it.

Thanks for your help.

Last edited by lefoid (2012-04-09 12:23:02)

oodavid

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From: Newcastle, UK

Registered: 2012-04-06

Posts: 16

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Re: [Solved] Notification area or clock position on upper board (solved)

Maybe the panel thinks the monitor's at a different resolution?

(not that I have any reason to think that, new Xfce user)

lefoid

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Registered: 2012-04-08

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] Notification area or clock position on upper board (solved)

Hi oodavid,

Well, I didn't change anything on my resolution; I just made an update of previous xfce version.
Thanks for the try anyway.

My question is more : is there a file to edit in order to say "new plugins had to be on the right/left/center" ?
Or maybe, do I have to erase a .conf file from the previous version ? Sound strange that I can't move
anything to the right side; everything wants to stay on the left !

rugar

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Registered: 2012-02-09

Posts: 7

Re: [Solved] Notification area or clock position on upper board (solved)

just updated and i'm having the same problem! my notification, clock and sound are jumping around in my panel based on the number of windows. is this a bug or made by design?

the solution i've found so far is:

create a seperator between window buttons and the rest. set it to expand and it will fill the space.

lefoid

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Registered: 2012-04-08

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] Notification area or clock position on upper board (solved)

Hi rugar,

Thanks a lot for this tip. Sound crappy, but it works in fact. I put the separator "transparent", and
everything looks like before.

A solved problem ... (at least for me).

chengshiding

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Registered: 2011-12-14

Posts: 21

Re: [Solved] Notification area or clock position on upper board (solved)

+1

TiberiusT

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Registered: 2012-05-13

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] Notification area or clock position on upper board (solved)

@rugar

Excellent tks. That was doing my head in

I put 2 new Separator items, one each side of my Window Buttons, then set the separators to 'expand' and now the Window Buttons area stays a fixed size and nothing else moves. Phew!

T

Last edited by TiberiusT (2012-05-13 08:09:28)

vasa1

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Registered: 2012-05-12

Posts: 22

Re: [Solved] Notification area or clock position on upper board (solved)

I think we've bumped into a "feature, not bug" because of this: "The window buttons plugin no longer expands, which makes the plugin positioning more flexible. In order to restore the previous behavior please add a transparent separator plugin with the Expand option enabled just behind the window buttons plugin." from http://xfce.org/about/tour under Windows buttons.

TiberiusT

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Registered: 2012-05-13

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] Notification area or clock position on upper board (solved)

@vasa1

Oh dear....clearly a case of RTFM then

Tks
T

vasa1

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Registered: 2012-05-12

Posts: 22

Re: [Solved] Notification area or clock position on upper board (solved)

@vasa1

Oh dear....clearly a case of RTFM then

Tks
T

Not to worry. I'm sure I'll have my fair share of them as well

Happy Tweaking!