Created attachment 6287 Screenshot of the panel and the clock applet preferences I have just upgraded my laptop to Fedora 22, which contains XFCE 4.12. I use a single vertical panel, and I have the Orage panel clock applet in this panel. After the upgrade, the text displayed by the applet is garbled - probably all three rows written on top of each other. When I select rotated text in the preferences, it is displayed correctly, but I don't want to use rotated text. I am attaching screenshot (the clock applet is that unreadable thing just above the Fedora logo) together with the preferences.
Does it work if you set the hight bigger?
No - the applet and its frame becomes higher, but there is still only one row of text.
OK, the "show lines vertically" checkbox is what does what I expect. I have discovered this after upgrading also my desktop workstation, which uses horizontal panels: the former two-line layout of the clock applet was also collapsed to one line. Why this is not the default? And why these things are called "lines" in the preferences dialog, when by default they are not rendered as different _lines_?
I ran into this same confusion on XFCE 4.13. Found this report which reminded me that I also encountered it when I setup my last desktop on 4.12. Agree that it makes no sense to call them "lines" and then require an option be ticked to show them as lines. Perhaps calling them an "Element" or "Item" would be clearer. Alternately, if you're calling them "Lines" then invert the option to say "Show lines horizontally."
The orage project is not maintained anymore and has been archived. Closing bugs.