Re: XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11
On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 17:30:38 +0500
"Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28.02.2022 02:32, José Luis González wrote:
> > Hi,
Hi Alexander,
> > Upon upgrading to Debian 11, the ALT+F1 key, which is assigned as a
> > shortcut to xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu, according to XFCE's settings,
> > no longer shows the applications menu and instead the app menu button
> > on my panel appears pressed without the menu unfolded. A second key
> > press shows the CTRL-ESC (xfdesktop --menu) menu, not the app menu.
> >
> > What's going on? I'm suffering from the same in both machines I have
> > with Debian 11.
> It looks like "xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu" is a simple wrapper Bash
> script.
> All it does is trying to execute "xfce4-panel" with a long line of
> parameters and if that fails, fallback to execute "xfdesktop --menu"
> instead.
> Man page for "xfce4-panel" doesn't explain anything about
> "--plugin-event" parameter, so it looks like it was reworked somehow.
> The problem is that "xfce4-panel" never fails to execute with that
> undocumented parameter, so fallback option doesn't work.
> You can file a bug report about this, or change a command, assigned to
> 'Alt+F1' key combination, to
> "/usr/bin/xfce4-panel --plugin-event=applicationsmenu:popup"
The replacement command you propose doesn't work any better for me. I'm
going to file a bug report.
Best,
José Luis
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