Problem: XFCE

[thinkanish]

Hi,
Today i installed xfce and i like it better than gnome except the few problems it creates:

1. the panel is auto hiding… how to fix it?
2. laptop trackpad click not working… only button click is working…
3. The title bar for all windows is gone!

Please help me fix these problems. thanks

[nrickert]

@thinkanish

Today i installed xfce and i like it better than gnome except the few problems it creates:

What version of opensuse are you using.

@thinkanish

1. the panel is auto hiding… how to fix it?

That seems strange. I have it autohiding myself. But the default was for it to not be autohiding. Perhaps you have config settings sitting around from an earlier version.

If you right click on the panel, there should be a setting for this, though I seem to recall that it wasn’t completely obvious.

@thinkanish

2. laptop trackpad click not working… only button click is working…

I don’t recall seeing an XFCE setting for that. Maybe you will find something useful in this thread:
HP Touchpad tapping not persistent …

@thinkanish

3. The title bar for all windows is gone!

Try creating a new user, and see if the same thing happens for a new user. It shouldn’t. You probably have some old xfce settings that are confusing it.

[please_try_again]

@thinkanish

1. the panel is auto hiding… how to fix it?

 xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/use_compositing -t bool -s false

• Don’t know why, but enabing/disabling compositing turns the panel autohiding on/off.

[sobrus]

Panel is auto-hiding with compositing enabled?
Solution is simple
Delete it

And make new one. This one won’t autohide.
Only default panel is bugged.

Windows titlebar is gone - are you using compiz? Compiz won’t work on Xfce. There is a problem with decorator.

[please_try_again]

@sobrus

Panel is auto-hiding with compositing enabled?
Solution is simple
Delete it

And make new one. This one won’t autohide.
Only default panel is bugged.

That’s right. The default panel is buggy. (!)
Deleting this panel and creating another one solves the problem indeed - more exactly creating another panel, then deleting the original one, since you cannot delete a panel if it’s the only one.

[sobrus]

Ok, I managed to run compiz on xfce.
Although i’m not 100% sure if it always works

The trick is that you don’t run it using “compiz --replace” and then “gtk-window-manager --replace”.
Just

compiz-manager

Using compiz --replace launches compiz in “improper” mode, and decorations won’t work.

Also, compiz uses metacity themes, so you will probably need it (and compiz-gnome package too).
To change theme without gnome use gconf editor (apps/metacity/theme)

Now I don’t miss gnome2 anymore

[sobrus]

update:
you need to use both “compiz-manager” and then “gtk-window-decorator --replace”
otherwise it won’t work

[thinkanish]

Hi mates, thanks for your suggestion, I am using opensuse 11.4(default with gnome)
I deleted the panel and created a new one in XFCE! it worked. Thankyou sobrus lol!
Whats the big deal about something called “AT SPI REGISTRY”? Every time I reboot/logoff/shutdown, it needs to be manually closed (not responding).
I wanna get rid of this.>:)
And in gnome, it doesnt detect my fingerprint sensor

[sobrus]

It seems like AT-SPI is something for impaired people.
I’ve removed it (along with bunch of other bloating stuff like gnome-do etc) and system still works. I see no difference.