Re: GNOME 2 Application under toolbar/panel

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Erin Raasch <eraasch chorus net> writes:
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 10:00:05 -0700
> Jim Bowering <iamb otvcablelan net> wrote:
> 
> > On 2002.10.19 09:51 Fred Heitkamp wrote:
> > > 
> > > I started an application and it is under the default
> > > panel/toolbar at the top.  I can't get at the window
> > > menubar so I can't drag the application down.
> > 
> > I'm still using 1.4, but . . .
> > 
> > Hold Alt while you click anywhere in the app's window and drag it down.
> > 
> > > I also can't get rid of or move the toolbar/panel.
> > 
> > If you right-click the panel there's a menu item Panel/Remove this 
> > panel...  I don't want to try it because I like my panel the way it is.-)
> > 
> > jim
> 
> This was the thing that I *really* didn't like about gnome2.  I
> eventually created a panel at the bottom of the screen, added my
> menus to it, and deleted the default panel.  Supposedly it's a bug
> in the application and not the fault of gnome, but it was almost
> enough to send me back to 1.4.
> 

It's not a bug in the app, the window manager should not allow window
titlebars to be buried under panels (or offscreen). Metacity does not,
if it does it's a bug to report.

Havoc