XFCE wonkiness after upgrading from Fedora10 -> 11

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Wed Jul 29 23:17:25 UTC 2009


On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:15:03 -0700
Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Kevin Fenzi<kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:56:02 -0700
> > Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Kevin Fenzi<kevin at scrye.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:42:48 -0700
> >> > Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Greetings,
> >> >> I've just upgaded from Fedora10 to 11, and I'm running across a
> >> >> bunch of XFCE problems.  Apologies if these are Fedora specific
> >> >> or known already:
> >> >> 0) New windows appear _under_ pre-existing windows.  At first I
> >> >> thought I was going crazy because apps would never seemingly
> >> >> run, until I realized that they were happily sitting behind
> >> >> other apps.
> >> >
> >> > There is a thread on the upstream devel list about this...
> >> > It's unclear to me at least what causes the issue. ;(
> >>
> >> Ugh.  Does that imply that there's no solution either?
> >
> > Sorry to dig up an old thread here, but upstream has released a
> > patch for this behavior that might get it working the way you
> > expect.
> >
> > See:
> >
> > http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8073
> >
> > for a f11 test update with that patch. If it works for you, please
> > add karma there and indicate that it does. ;)
> 
> Thanks.  How or where do I get this package?  I looked all over the
> URL you provided, and nothing points to an RPM as far as I can tell.

You can look at the 'builds' link and get it direct from the build
system, or way a day or so and it should show up in the
'updates-testing' repository. A link from the bug: 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514206

explains how to install it from there via yum. 

kevin
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