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Sadface

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-12-09

Posts: 47

Xfce 4.8 Task-List and Traybar problems

Greetings fellow Archers!

Ever since I did the switch to Xfce 4.8, my Task-List and Traybar panel plugins have caused some trouble.

The traybar won't always show every icon (the space where the item should be is there, but the item itself
is invisible) UNLESS I enable the tray's border. With the border enabled, I can see every item without problem.

The task list is weird in that it often (like every 20 times of activating a window) will display an item permanently
with a white background (unless hovered with the mouse in which case it will switch back to the normal hover
state temporarily). I haven't found a way to permanently fix that (obviously) but I can temporarily fix it by checking
and unchecking "Flat buttons" (The bugged out item actually _IS_ a flat button)

I've made a screenshot of the task list problem to clarify:

Leftmost is the bugged out item, middle is normal and right one is the active window.

Some details and versions following:

$ X -version
[...]
X.Org X Server 1.9.4.901 (1.9.5 RC 1)
[...]
$ xfce4-panel --version
xfce4-panel 4.8.2 (Xfce 4.8.0)
$ uname -rm
2.6.37-ARCH x86_64

Xfwm compositing is enabled but this happens with disabled compositor aswell.

GTK and Xfwm themes are irrelevant.

Can anyone confirm these bugs? A glance over the Xfce buglist didn't show anyone else having this, neither
did a quick visit of #xfce on freenode.

Last edited by Sadface (2011-03-19 18:14:43)

Sadface

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2009-12-09

Posts: 47

Re: Xfce 4.8 Task-List and Traybar problems

Bump?

alez

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Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 74

Re: Xfce 4.8 Task-List and Traybar problems

I have none of the above problems but i may hint about using a new user (or backup your configs and start with a clean session) to see if it still happens. Since the problem came with the switch maybe the problem is there.

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