Just One Panel On The Bottom, Possible?

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Just One Panel On The Bottom, Possible?

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Xfce runs great on my old PC but there is one thing I cannot figure out how to do. I want the panel that defaults to the top to be on the bottom. I already got rid of the Dock-like panel on the bottom.
I examined the panel settings and the only options offered are to the left or to the top. I tried unlocking the panel, hoping it could be a drag and drop operation but no luck.
Can the panel be moved to the bottom?
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No, the standard Xfce top panel can't be moved to the bottom. I would recommend using the KDE, Trinity, LXDE or Razor-qt desktop for a single panel on the bottom of the screen. Xfce is more suited to mimicking the old GNOME 2.x desktop or Mac than Windows variants.
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Am I horribly misunderstanding something here? Last time I checked, you could indeed simply drag and drop the top xfce panel to the bottom.
Right click on the panel, go to panel properties, unlock the panel, drag and drop it. I'll check the exact steps/names when I get home this evening, but it should be that simple.
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passerby wrote:Am I horribly misunderstanding something here? Last time I checked, you could indeed simply drag and drop the top xfce panel to the bottom.
Right click on the panel, go to panel properties, unlock the panel, drag and drop it. I'll check the exact steps/names when I get home this evening, but it should be that simple.
You are correct. XFCE is quite customizable. You can do as you described even to place it on another monitor.
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Re: Just One Panel On The Bottom, Possible?

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InkKnife wrote:Xfce [...] I want the panel that defaults to the top to be on the bottom. I already got rid of the Dock-like panel on the bottom.
Sorry, I do not quite understand the problem.
Have a look at my Mint 13 32-bit xfce 4.10 desktop. No special tweaking applied. No top panel. Only the bottom panel. From the start. (Unless my memory serves me absolutely wrong.)

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Mint 13 xfce bottom panel only

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Re: Just One Panel On The Bottom, Possible?

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karlchen wrote: Have a look at my Mint 13 32-bit xfce 4.10 desktop. No special tweaking applied. No top panel. Only the bottom panel. From the start. (Unless my memory serves me absolutely wrong.)
I don't think you're wrong. Mint Xfce comes with just the bottom panel out of the box. Maybe the OP is running Xubuntu?
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Mint 13 Xfce comes out of the box configured for the bottom panel only. Mint 15, which does not come with a supported Xfce variant, and Xubuntu 13.10 do NOT support a bottom panel only per default configuration, nor does the GUI configuration support changing the top panel to a bottom panel. I forgot to mention, you can also use Mint MATE or Cinnamon for a bottom panel only.
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On xfce 4.10, all I need to do is drag from any 'empty panel' .

I think on older xfce version, you need to drag with the 'handle'.

When your panel is horizontal, the handle is on both end of panel, on the far left as well as far right.

It is a little double-dot line, as it is often merged into the background you may miss it :lol:

anyway, just point to mouse cursor on the handle, left click and hold, you should then be able to drag the panel to the bottom screen.
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The trouble is I failed to notice the little drag handle that appears to the extreme left. Once I found that it was a snap.
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Thank you, Wayne128, that was my problem. I still can't really see the 'handles' on my monitor, but I could move the panel when I grabbed the end of the panel. (At least on Mint 15). On earlier versions of Xfce, I could grab any place on the panel (Xfce before 4.6?).
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cwsnyder wrote:Mint 15, which does not come with a supported Xfce variant, and Xubuntu 13.10 do NOT support a bottom panel only per default configuration
If this is right then it seems as if someone must have forgotten to mention so here: [url=http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia_xfce.php]Release Notes for Linux Mint 15 Xfce[/url]
Or is it a deficiency which has been detected only after Mint 15 xfce had been released?

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