@FlameWeasel

Thanks for the newsy notes.
I hope you will continue to participate and contribute to our forum.

I have turned off the my 'private' option since it has been used by
several in hopes I can solve their unique problems. More than likely
I can't, and the requestor would do better to ask in the open forum,
where others can see and respond to their problem.

If you are a competent scripter, many of us without formal training
can use some tutoring. Please help educate us. As for your needs
in Linux configuration, that's a common thread in which we all are
here looking for answers.

There are a few forum contributors which are too abrasive in their
inter-personal styles for my taste as well as yours. However, they
often have knowledge and/or experience we can learn from if we are
patient enough.

All things considered, I get more out of this forum than any other
I've run across. I do regret we don't have some participation by
Klaus K, himself. I imagine that he is a very popular and busy man
and hasn't the time to devote to this niche.

In keeping with this thread I offer the following update. I've turned
off Compiz, and I've turned back on the lxpanel hide-when-not-in-use.
I occasionally still have a keyboard lock-out that can only be
cured by control-alt-backspace. It only happens when I've also had
LibreOffice in use for spreadsheet operations. I can live with that.
I save my stuff fairly often, so I never lose much, if anything, on
an unplanned shutdown. And, finally, I can't see that the suggestion
in my Post #5 has any effect on any of my complaints whatsoever.

Looking forward to your powerbtn.sh thread.