You're right Dumitru, this is an old bug: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/201
I have been using XFCE for a very long time and in the past there was always a keyboard shortcut to open the applications menu on the panel directly. There is a separate shortcut to open the desktop menu (which Robb at y42 mentioned). I suppose we just have to wait for it to be fixed upstream. The .xsession-errors file was the right place to look which was helpful for me so thanks for that Robb. Regards Ed Gray On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 09:07, Dumitru Moldovan <du...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 07:33:20PM +0100, Ed Gray wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have an issue with XFCE on OpenBSD 6.6 and current on an amd64 system. > >XFCE works fine except for accessing the applications menu with the Alt + > >F1 keyboard shortcut. Instead of loading the menu it gets highlighted in > >grey and nothing happens. Clicking the menu loads it straight away. > > > >The shortcut is defined in the keyboard settings as the default for > >xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu which is different from the shortcut for the > >desktop menu. Sometimes in another application such as firefox when I > press > >Alt + F1 a second time I get the desktop menu appear, even though firefox > >is maximised and I'm not on the desktop. > > > >I can't confirm at the moment if it is specific to OpenBSD or XFCE in > >general. > > > >Does anyone else have this problem? > > Have seen this on Void Linux as well. Family member needed Netflix on > her laptop, so I couldn't push OpenBSD, even though it ran fine. (Had > to check, and by the way, it was surprising to see how much slower it > ran compared to Alpine or Void.) > > But this is an older Xfce bug, I remember having similar issues when > I last gave it a shot. This used to work reliably in older versions > though, back when Xfce was based on GTK+ 2.x. > > To end in a positive note, one thing I learned on my OpenBSD adventure > is "the best desktop is no desktop". cwm never fails to open its > menus. Keep it stupid simple. > >
