Re: Task Bar?

[Preben Randhol <randhol pvv org>]

Damien Miller <dmiller@ilogic.com.au> writes:


| The current pager wastes a lot of panel space. Unless you have a very
| high res display, the labels on the window buttons get unreadable really quickly.

You obviously haven't looked at the preferences (right click on the
pager and choose properties from the menu). 
 
| IMO a better solution would be a combination of a task bar and a 
| seperate desktop pager. The pager could live in the panel, the 
| taskbar above.

This is possible. Look at the preferences. Create a new panel and keep
this on the bottom of the screen. And have one on the right side or
something with the rest. 

Try this:

Create a new corner panel and put it on the bottom of the screen. Turn
off the arrows.

Then add the gnome pager applet. Choose properties.

Turn off Show pager

Turn on: 

Show task list
Show all tasks
Show all tasks on all desktops (if you like)
show all minimized tasks on all desktops (if you like)
Tasklist always maximum size

Set:

Maximum width to number of pixels you need
Maximum height as low as possible
number of rows to 1
and number of vertical columns to 1

Turn off:

Show button icons
Show task list button


Now in a panel on say you right side you add the gnome pager
also. Here you turn on show pager and Use small pagers and turn off
show task list.


Now be a good chap and read the docs.

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