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imbaud

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Registered: 2015-05-29

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Window out of reach

This just occurred to me. I run xfce4 on a Gentoo, not sure the exact version or even the distro is relevant here.

I have an xfce4 terminal windows, with many tabs open, each with a different context.
I hit inadvertently the up arrow on the title bar; this reduces the window to the title bar. This is a thing I never do on purpose, I am a bit puzzled, dunno how to bring back the window to normal.
There is a menu in the title bar, with "full screen" (also avail as f11). I trig it. Mistake! Now my window is fullscreen, has no body, I see no way I can bring back to life!
I tried the xdotool key F11 trick, it works with existing windows, doesnt work with this one!
Any way out? cant we consider this is a bug?

Jerry3904

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Registered: 2013-11-09

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Re: Window out of reach

When reduced to a title bar, there is a small down arrow 4 items in from the right end, or did you try that already? Don't know how get out of that full screen...

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ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Window out of reach

I'm not even able to replicate this scenario. I can "shade" the window ("up arrow on the title bar"), but when I select "Fullscreen" or press F11, nothing happens - the window does not get full-screened at all.

@imbaud, generally, gentoo has the latest versions of the Xfce components, but can you verify the versions of xfce4-terminal and xfwm4?

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imbaud

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Registered: 2015-05-29

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Re: Window out of reach

I'm not even able to replicate this scenario. I can "shade" the window ("up arrow on the title bar"), but when I select "Fullscreen" or press F11, nothing happens - the window does not get full-screened at all.

@imbaud, generally, gentoo has the latest versions of the Xfce components, but can you verify the versions of xfce4-terminal and xfwm4?

eix xfce4-terminal
     x11-terms/xfce4-terminal
     Available versions:  0.6.3 {debug}
     Installed versions:  0.6.3(15:34:41 05/01/2015)(-debug)
eix xfwm4$
     xfce-base/xfwm4
     Available versions:  4.10.1 ~4.11.2 ~4.12.0 ~4.12.2 ~4.12.3 {debug dri startup-notification +xcomposite}
     Installed versions:  4.10.1(10:48:48 25/04/2014)(startup-notification xcomposite -debug)

Bug occured at work. I could not reproduce it at home: the shaded terminal (reduced to one line) doesnt react to F11. (same as you).
Versions given are at work, where problem occurs.

Now I consider my terminal as lost, but ok to make tests to help spot the problem.
I could

imbaud

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Registered: 2015-05-29

Posts: 5

Re: Window out of reach

sorry, last sentence cut: I am ready to experiment, to help solve the problem
And Thanks for your answers!

Sideburns

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Registered: 2011-03-30

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Re: Window out of reach

I'm running Xfce 4.110 under Fedora, and a shaded window doesn't respond to F11.  It does, however, respond just fine to that "down arrow" button.  (It's like a caret, but pointing down instead of up.)  I've been using Xfce (with Compiz) for several years and it's always been like this.  Is F11 supposed to be active for that?

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imbaud

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Registered: 2015-05-29

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Re: Window out of reach

I'm running Xfce 4.110 under Fedora, and a shaded window doesn't respond to F11.  It does, however, respond just fine to that "down arrow" button.  (It's like a caret, but pointing down instead of up.)  I've been using Xfce (with Compiz) for several years and it's always been like this.  Is F11 supposed to be active for that?

F11 is full-screen. Try it on a terminal, or a firefox. Handy sometimes.

derk

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From: St Thomas ON

Registered: 2015-06-03

Posts: 3

Re: Window out of reach

F11 should toggle .. fullscreen .. not fullscreen .. shading button should also toggle ..

which xfce library versions are you using on gentoo ..

I'm on the xfce-dev git versions so .. not the same as the regular gentoo tree .. all works fine for me .. but you may have a library conflict as  several versions of libxfce4ui, libxfce4util. exo and garcon ..etc. are in the gentoo/portage tree .. if xfce4-terminal has not been compiled against the installed libraries you may have problems .. due to minor api changes

derk

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From: St Thomas ON

Registered: 2015-06-03

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Re: Window out of reach

have you tried a right click on the terminal window .. on my version of xfce4-terminal it brings up a small menu with a fullscreen toggle on it

you could also try setting  window manager -- advanced -- double click action -- to shade / unshade when double clicking title bar  ... to fix?

Last edited by derk (2015-06-03 21:29:42)

imbaud

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Registered: 2015-05-29

Posts: 5

Re: Window out of reach

have you tried a right click on the terminal window .. on my version of xfce4-terminal it brings up a small menu with a fullscreen toggle on it

For me too... but when shaded there is NO window!

But for some reason all came back to normal!
- my terminal showed up again.
- when trying to reproduce the sequence, a shaded window does not react to F11.

So I am not even able to fill a bug!

Thanks you all for your help!