Bug#408534: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#408534: xfce4-panel: Panel crashes when moved to 2nd screen in multihead setup

[Simon Huggins]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 03:53:00PM +0100, Robert Spielmann wrote:
> I am running a dual-head setup on a Dell Inspiron 6400, screen 0 (laptop 
> LCD) with 1280x800, screen 1 (ext. TFT) 1680x1050 - whenever I try to 
> set the panel to run on the external TFT, it crashes with the following 
> error:

> The program 'xfce4-panel' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
>   (Details: serial 28497 error_code 8 request_code 56 minor_code 0)

> Unfortunately, this situation makes working on the external TFT 
> complicated because I have to start all programs manually and I am 
> unable to see the taskbar including the system status etc.

What are you doing to get xfce4-panel to start on the external TFT?
Are you driving both at once?  Is this plain xinerama?
Have you upgraded Debian recently and not restarted X?

Simon.

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