Re: XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11

From	Daniel Fishman <quantera@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11
Date	2022-03-07 19:50 +0100
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This is the following issue:

https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/201

On 3/4/22 00:39, José Luis González wrote:
> 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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XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11 José Luis González <bugs.jlg@gmail.com> - 2022-02-27 22:40 +0100
  Re: XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11 Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2022-03-01 00:00 +0100
    Re: XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11 José Luis González <bugs.jlg@gmail.com> - 2022-03-01 01:50 +0100
  Re: XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11 "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2022-03-02 13:40 +0100
    Re: XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11 José Luis González <bugs.jlg@gmail.com> - 2022-03-03 23:50 +0100
      Re: XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11 Daniel Fishman <quantera@gmail.com> - 2022-03-07 19:50 +0100

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