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

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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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