On mer., 2010-11-03 at 22:16 +0000, Wookey wrote: > If you resize the screen to make it smaller, the panel moves to still > be at the bottom of the screen, but when you resize it to be larger > again the panel stays at the same point so now it is part way up the > screen, obscuring useful stuff. > > I think that you need to enable the external display to provoke this > bug, but once it has gone wrong it stays wrong until a restart of the > session. > > Here is a sequence that broke it for me: > LVDS screen is 1440x900. turn on VGA screen and set resolution of both > internal and external screens to 1024x768. (give talk). use grandr to > turn off VGA output and reset LVDS screen to 1440x900. Panel is now > part way up screen, and no amount of resizing will fix that. > > This is a long-standing bug present in lenny as well as squeeze.
Yes, xfce4-panel doesn't really support xrandr hot-resize, so you need to restart it after changing anything, using xfce4-panel -r. Can you try and report back? Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis
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