Xfce "Applications" menu is truncated in panel on Maverick

[Matt Sealey]

Binary package hint: xfce4-panel

test system: iMX51 (Efika MX), Maverick built from rootstock on 2010-09-15. Since a few weeks, the Xfce desktop panel has been broken. After ruling out the obvious things, all I can do is look at this button that is truncated here.

Basically what I see is

Ap| [ ] Places O (?)

There should be an Ubuntu icon logo and the full text Application, no?

Will upload a screenshot as soon as I can. This happens on Rob Nelson's Beagleboard images too, and the Xorg driver is fbdev so I cannot imagine it is a graphics driver bug. The rest of the system is tantamount to "perfect", it just has this one menu item too small and I cannot expand the size any way I try.

[Matt Sealey (mwsealey)]

Screenshot demonstrating problem

[Marcin Juszkiewicz (hrw)]

For those who does not know what rootstock is - it is wrapper to debootstrap which runs postinst stuff in qemu to allow to generate rootfs for other architecture (efikamx is ARM).

I checked few suggestions given on irc:

- changing name of applet (from Programy -> Xfce Menu -> Applications)
- remove + add xfcemenu applet
- restarting xfce4-panel
- resizing panel

Nothing helped.

It looks like horizontal size for applet is given only to size of icon (always square adapted to vertical size of panel). I tried flower.jpg, vim-16.xpm and nothing helped. For now I moved to using icon instead of text as this just works.

[Marcin Juszkiewicz (hrw)]

btw - I am using EfikaMX smartbook with 1024x600 resolution in 16bits.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here.

I did have Marcin Juszkiewicz remove and re-add the menu to the panel, and also increase the panel size to 124. At 124, more of the characters are visible. Not sure if this is a bug in Xubuntu or Xfce, though.

Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Marcin Juszkiewicz (hrw)]

This time I tried 1024x600px picture as icon but it was scaled to fit in square so nothing changed.

[Marcin Juszkiewicz (hrw)]

Problem does not exists in Natty.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks, Marcin.

The panel code was re-written for Xfce4.8, which is in Natty, so maybe it got fixed in the re-write.

[Tom Gall (tom-gall)]

Our daily linaro alip images for natty which includes xfce does not show this bug.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

If it's fixed in natty, it means it was fixed during the 4.8 panel rewrite, so it's very unlikely to be fixed in 4.6 (in maverick).