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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

#245715 — XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11

Hi,

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.

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#245752

On 2/27/22 14:32, José Luis González wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 


On my Bullseye 11.2 XFCE Dell laptop, I need Fn-ALT-F1 to do that even 
though ALT-F1 is specified in Settings -> Keyboard -> Application Shortcuts.

Hope this helps.

Ralph

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#245760

On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:44:18 +0000
Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> wrote:

> On 2/27/22 14:32, José Luis González wrote:
> > Hi,

Hi,

> > 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.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> On my Bullseye 11.2 XFCE Dell laptop, I need Fn-ALT-F1 to do that even 
> though ALT-F1 is specified in Settings -> Keyboard -> Application Shortcuts.

I just tried this and it doesn't work for me (nothing happens when I
add Fn).

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#245807

On 28.02.2022 02:32, José Luis González wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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"

-- 
With kindest regards, Alexander.

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#245858

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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#246028

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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