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mabra

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Registered: 2015-09-05

Posts: 57

make deskbar (panel) 'automatically hide' immidiately & appear on top

Hello!
First.
I am using additional panels which are set to 'automatically hide'.
They really disappear, but after the too long second (may be 1.5).
They should disappear the moment, the mouse went out!
How can I change this?
(Found a similar topic with dconf(??) setting, which do not work)
Second.
The same panel overlaps my top panel (which behaves right [never disappears as configued]).
Overlapping the top-panel is ok, but this panel appears behind the top-panel
and becomes badly to use.
None of the panel setting have something what for windows is "stay on top",
so the panel, which come up (after mouse over) should be the top window.
Is there something what I can do to change this behavior?

Using debian11, bullseye, with xfce4, 4.16

Thanks,
Manfred

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: make deskbar (panel) 'automatically hide' immidiately & appear on top

First.
I am using additional panels which are set to 'automatically hide'.
They really disappear, but after the too long second (may be 1.5).
They should disappear the moment, the mouse went out!
How can I change this?
(Found a similar topic with dconf(??) setting, which do not work)

Xfce doesn't use dconf or gsettings, yet. See: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=14676

Second.
The same panel overlaps my top panel (which behaves right [never disappears as configued]).
Overlapping the top-panel is ok, but this panel appears behind the top-panel
and becomes badly to use.
None of the panel setting have something what for windows is "stay on top",
so the panel, which come up (after mouse over) should be the top window.
Is there something what I can do to change this behavior?

I'm not sure its easily possible/configurable. What if you resized the panel so it didn't overlap?

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mabra

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Registered: 2015-09-05

Posts: 57

Re: make deskbar (panel) 'automatically hide' immidiately & appear on top

Just that you wrote - this remembers me finally, see here:
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/preferences
I tried, what is written there, it's not dconf, it's xfconf-query and the sample is:

xfconf-query -n -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-2/popdown-speed -t int -s 0

(Does not work, tried it earlier)
But I'll follow your instruction given in the link.
Second.
What is behind the top-panel is a panel with my workspaces.
Not only a big number, but even big preview. So, nothing can
be changed there.

mabra

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Registered: 2015-09-05

Posts: 57

Re: make deskbar (panel) 'automatically hide' immidiately & appear on top

What if you resized the panel so it didn't overlap?

Tried to keep it short.
I have 3(!) panels on top of the screen. Two permanently visible, split so,
that one contains items, which cannot be configured to use multiple rows - so,
one panel with two rows, one with one-row-items. They occupy about 85% of
the screen.
But the third panel, containing my workspaces (really a huge nuber),
needs alone about 60% ...., it the problem - it stays behind the others.
"Accidentally", found a solution while spying similar things:

wmctrl -l | igrep panel | awk 'NR==5 { print $1 }' \
          | xargs -I% bash -c 'wmctrl -i -r % -b add,above'

Can run at login and sets this panel - which is usually auto-hide - on top.
It comes on top, if it appears.
The magic number 5 in the scriptline is the right panel - FOR ME,
in the order, they have been instanciated. Could be feedled out
by xprop or xwinfo (worked better for me) together with "wmctrl -l | grep panel".

EDIT2: After I found this, I recognized, that was the part TOZ has been
shown in the last line of his referenced diskussion entry .... too tired.
-Manfred

Last edited by mabra (2023-05-03 01:07:40)