#581 lxpanel covers maximized window bottoms

[Norbert Bánki]

I encountered this using two really different distros:

- Debian 7.0.0 Wheezy with LXDE
- Fedora 18 Spherical Cow LXDE spin

So, the problem is: You maximize a window, and you can't see the bottom 26px of it (default lxpanel height). So lxpanel doesn't behave as a dock. I checked the corresponding setting in lxpanel settings, I have unchecked and rechecked it without any effect. A kind person helped me out on IRC, he gave me the following code to insert it into the Openbox config file:

<application name="panel">
<skip_taskbar>yes</skip_taskbar>
<layer>above</layer>
</application>
<application name="panel" type="dock">
<layer>below</layer>
</application>

Though, I'm not sure whether this helped me out or the messing with some obconf settings as I didn't restart the panel the first time.
I hope you understood me all, I'm glad if I helped out someone !

[Norbert Bánki]

The screenshot showing the strange behaviour

[Vedran Rodic]

Can you please provide a clear step by step way to reproduce this? I'm not sure whats the problem here.

[Norbert Bánki]

I wrote it a billion years ago, I barely remember this case. Aren't there
any time stamps or something ? Duh.

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Vedran Rodic vedranrodic@users.sf.netwrote:

Can you please provide a clear step by step way to reproduce this? I'm not
sure whats the problem here.

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• [bugs:#581] http://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/bugs/581/ lxpanel covers
  maximized window bottoms*

Status: open
Group:
Labels: lxpanel
Created: Tue Jun 11, 2013 07:16 PM UTC by Norbert Bánki
Last Updated: Tue Jun 11, 2013 07:16 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

I encountered this using two really different distros:

• Debian 7.0.0 Wheezy with LXDE
• Fedora 18 Spherical Cow LXDE spin

So, the problem is: You maximize a window, and you can't see the bottom
26px of it (default lxpanel height). So lxpanel doesn't behave as a dock. I
checked the corresponding setting in lxpanel settings, I have unchecked and
rechecked it without any effect. A kind person helped me out on IRC, he
gave me the following code to insert it into the Openbox config file:

<application name="panel">
<skip_taskbar>yes</skip_taskbar>
<layer>above</layer>
</application>
<application name="panel" type="dock">
<layer>below</layer>
</application>

Though, I'm not sure whether this helped me out or the messing with some
obconf settings as I didn't restart the panel the first time.
I hope you understood me all, I'm glad if I helped out someone !

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[Francisco Vila]

I have the same problem. I worked it around by setting a bottom margin of 26 px at 'Margins' tab in obconf. It is not a good solution because it relies at lxpanel being only at the bottom. lxpanel is not obeying the panel preference [lxpanelctl config], Advanced tab, "reserve space -- do not let it be covered by maximised windows" setting.

[Lonely Stranger]

I believe this issue is fixed now completely in the GIT sources repository. Test it when possible, please, and let us know if something is still wrong. Thank you very much.