On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Kevin Fenzi<kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:42:48 -0700 > Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Greetings, >> I've just upgaded from Fedora10 to 11, and I'm running across a bunch >> of XFCE problems. Apologies if these are Fedora specific or known >> already: >> 0) New windows appear _under_ pre-existing windows. At first I >> thought I was going crazy because apps would never seemingly run, >> until I realized that they were happily sitting behind other apps. > > There is a thread on the upstream devel list about this... > It's unclear to me at least what causes the issue. ;( Ugh. Does that imply that there's no solution either? > > What do you have for: > > Automatically give focus to newly started applications. unchecked looks like if i check this off, then the badness goes away, but that definitely wasn't needed back in Fedora 10 > and > Automatically raise windows when they receive focus. uncheched > > In your window manager prefs? Does changing these affect the behavior? > Also, do you see it only with Terminal and Thunar? Or is it everything? everything exhibits this problem > >> 1) The menu editor(xfce4-menueditor) seems to be gone entirely. Its >> not in the settings-manager, and there's no xfce4-menueditor binary >> anywhere. I did a yum search for it as well, and found nothing. That >> wouldn't be a big deal except that.... > > Yep. The menu handling was totally redone in 4.6, and the editor was > not ready to ship. They decided that this functionality was not worth > blocking the entire release on, so it's not available. ;( > It should be back better and stronger in 4.8. > >> 2) My /home/netllama/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml is completely >> ignored, and I'm getting a default menu with all sorts of entries that >> I don't want or need, and none of the entries that I do need. >> >> thanks in advance for any guidance or feedback. > > Take a look at: > > http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu > > for info on customizing menus in 4.6. > > Hope that helps some. thanks, i'll give that a try. what I'm still puzzled by is why my pre-existing menu.xml is being ignored. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand https://netllama.linux-sxs.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
