xfce4-panel does not show all windows if panel area to small

[Thomas Schweikle]

xfce4-panel created a submenu if the area for window buttons is to small to hold them all. Within this menu only windows are shown, which are not "stacked" (more than one window running the same program). Windows which are stacked are not selectable any more this way.

Having 6 buttons displayed:
* Chromium (two windows)
* Pidgin buddy list
* Thunderbird
* virt-manager (two windows)
* VMware Workstation
* Shell (four windows)

Now opeing one additional window, xfce4-panel creates a submenu, because there is no more space left to display one additional button -- two buttons + Window-Submenu remain:
* Chromium (two windows)
* Thunderbird
* Submenu button

The submenu-button holds
* pidgin buddy list
* VMware Workstation

there is no way to access:
* Virt-manager (two windows)
* Shell (four windows)

The submenu-button only displays single program windows. The four shell can not be clicked to bring them up and to focus. You'll have to close or move some windows to an other dasktop until you have less than seven buttons in the windows area of the xfce4-panel. A soon as this is the case, you can again select stacket windows again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xfce4-panel 4.8.6-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.2.16 x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 9 16:59:18 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xfce4-panel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Thomas Schweikle (tps)]

Seeing this bug on 11.10 and 12.04.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Thomas,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with the xfce4-panel package.

You made this bug report in 2012 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
Or, if it is still a problem, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect 997153

and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.

G

[A. Denton (aquina)]

Both systems 11.10 and 12.04 are EOL. It was pointed out correctly, that there have been several (eol) versions of Ubuntu since 2012. No wonder there are 736594 open and 67280 unconfirmed bugs on launchpad.

By the way I cannot confirm this behavior on Xubutnu 14.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for the update, A. Denton. I will close the report now.
Have a great day!
:)
G

Closed per reporter’s feedback.