Package: fbpanel
Version: 7.0-4
Severity: normal
Hello!
I finally managed to convince fbpanel to have a width computed as
the screen width minus a fixed length (275 pixels).
The relevant options in ~/.config/fbpanel/default are:
Global {
edge = bottom
allign = right
xmargin = 275
widthtype = pixel
width = 30000
[...]
}
The widthtype must be "pixel" and the width must be set to a number
greater than any foreseeable screen width.
This is something that I have wanted to obtain for a long time,
because the alternative strategy is rather inconvenient: setting a
fixed width which is manually computed (by me!) as, say, 1325 pixels
(which is 1600 - 275), but has to be different for each distinct
screen resolution!
Why did it take so long for me to do this?
Because I had been trying to play with the margin option, which
had apparently no effect.
The fact is that the documentation (/usr/share/doc/fbpanel/README.gz)
states:
[...]
| * Margin - margin from screen edge for left or right allignment. Legal
values are numbers.
| Default is 0.
[...]
However, the program ignores any margin option and reads xmargin
(and ymargin) instead.
I had to dig into the source, in order to figure it out:
see function calculate_width() in panel/misc.c
and function panel_parse_global() in panel/panel.c ...
I guess this is an issue with incorrect (or perhaps out of date)
documentation.
Please fix the documentation and/or forward my bug report upstream,
as appropriate.
Thanks for your time.
Bye!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages fbpanel depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2
ii libc6 2.28-7
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-2
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-2
ii libfreetype6 2.9.1-3
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.0+dfsg-7
ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-3
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-6
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-6
ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.42.4-6
ii librsvg2-common 2.44.10-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
fbpanel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages fbpanel suggests:
ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.17-2
ii menu 2.1.47+b1
-- no debconf information
