[Solved] After moving from 4.8 to 4.10 my panels remain in the foreground

Reporter · 2013-06-14 17:27:47

Running Debian Sid (Unstable). After upgrading from Xfce 4.8 to 4.10 my Panels now remain in the foreground when I run a program, such as the FireFox browser, for instance. This is not desirable.

Darktux · 2013-06-14 23:32:50

Hi Reporter,
Please check in Panel Preferences if you have the Don't Reserve Space on Borders selected ?
If yes unselect it.

Reporter · 2013-06-15 10:15:46

I don't have that Panel Preference selected. This Panel Preference can allow or disallow the placement of desktop icons under Panels but has no effect on allowing panels to remain visible on top of my browser and all applications, such as Open Office, terminals, Skype, etc.. Someone whom I mentioned this to says that it has to do with a change by Xfce from GTK2 to QT, if I recall correctly. I provide a vertical market solution which makes extensive use of very large custom icons in several Panels when the desktop is showing, which is nice, but when programs are launched they use the entire HD display area and the persistence of these Panels after programs are launched is a disaster for the vertical market interface.

puw · 2013-06-16 10:15:50

The panels are placed above all regular windows. No idea if that was changed after 4.8 but it sounds like that is your problem. This behaviour can be changed using the wmctrl command, I use the following script on startup which works for my needs (one panel only, it won't work well with many panels unless run after all have started)

#!/bin/bash

while true; do
        ID=$(wmctrl -l | grep xfce4-panel$ | awk '{ print $1 }')
        if [ -n "$ID" ]; then
                break;
        fi
        sleep 5
done

for n in $ID; do
        wmctrl -i -r $n -b add,below
done

But you could also run this command and then click on the panel
wmctrl -r :SELECT: -b toggle,below

Panels always on top is by design as I have understood it.

MountainDewManiac · 2013-06-16 16:30:03

Reporter wrote:

Someone whom I mentioned this to says that it has to do with a change by Xfce from GTK2 to QT, if I recall correctly.

Xfce still uses GTK+ version 2 (not Qt).

I wonder if your issue is related to the (fixed) auto-hide panel bug? If so, I fixed it by adding ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10 and ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12 to my sources list and doing an update. The description on the Xfce 4.12 PPA web page specifies that we MUST add the Xfce 4.10 PPA to our sources first, BtW. And it also states that the versions (in the 4.12 PPA) are pre-release versions, not "stable" ones; however, they have been solid as granite for me.

Regards,
MDM

Reporter · 2013-06-16 18:40:01

Using FireFox or LibreOffice in full screen mode places the browser on top of all five of my panels but when not in full screen mode the browser window slides under them.

Korrode · 2013-06-16 18:48:11

Probably related to this:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8563

I know my problem will be.

Reporter · 2013-06-27 11:27:00

I found information about this here >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xfce under Tips and Tricks and it enabled me to solve this 'problem'.

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[Solved] After moving from 4.8 to 4.10 my panels remain in the foreground

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