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Pierre Thibault

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Registered: 2011-09-28

Posts: 10

[Solved] Panel hiding when the composer is activated

Hello,

I have a problem with the composer and my panel. When the display composer is activated, my panel at the bottom of the screen tends to disappear. I see the bottom of my screen background instead of the panel.

When the composer is off, everything works normally.

Any solution?

RobtWB

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Registered: 2011-09-29

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Panel hiding when the composer is activated

I had the same problem with the panel using XFCE 4.8.0 on openSUSE 11.4. I even tried manually setting the "auto-hide" to false in the configuration script, but it didn't help, so I imagine it's a bug somewhere. A workaround for me was to create another panel, place it at the top of the screen, then duplicate all the applets I had on the original panel (launchers, notifications, logoff, menu, etc.), then delete the original panel and move the new one to the bottom of the screen. I don't know why it affects the one panel and not the other, but it works, and has been fine through several logouts - logins. Perhaps someone with more experience / expertise will have a better answer, but this worked for me and got my panel to stop disappearing.

Pierre Thibault

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Registered: 2011-09-28

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved] Panel hiding when the composer is activated

Me too I have OpenSuse 11.4. Is it related? I will try what you are suggesting. Thank you.

Pierre Thibault

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Registered: 2011-09-28

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved] Panel hiding when the composer is activated

I did it and it is now working fine. :-)