Re: Panel behavior

[frantzdb admin arhs net]

Or you could set one corner panel to have things like a battery or cpu
monitor and have your primary panel autohide...
--Ben

On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Steve Gusz wrote:

> I tried using autohide but I have things like my battery monitor on the far
> right of my panel.  If I use autohide I can't casually glance down at it.
> Most programs that cover the panel I run off to the left.  So it would just be
> nice to be able to keep the panel running below my windows, but then click on
> it to bring it forward.  This way I can still see my battery monitor.
> 
> Also, is there a way to set one panel to stay on top, and another panel to be
> underneath.  I can only find such options under global properties.  Would be
> cool if you could do this on a per panel basis...
> 
> frantzdb@admin.arhs.net wrote:
> 
> > You can make the panel autohide. That might help.
> > --Bem
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Steve Gusz wrote:
> >
> > > I've found ways to make the panel always stay on top, or below the
> > > windows on my desktop.  But what I can't seem to make the panel do is to
> > >
> > > be below a window if I start up a program that would cover it, then have
> > >
> > > the panel come to the front when I click on any part of it.  The reason
> > > this is good for me is that I'm running GNOME on my laptop which only
> > > has an 800x600 display max, so I don't have much desktop space and many
> > > programs cover the panel if I leave it on stay below.  If I leave the
> > > panel set to stay on top a lot of programs become partially blocked by
> > > the panel...
> > >
> > > I've also notice many GNOME programs open far too big for an 800x600
> > > display.  Maybe people shouldn't design programs assuming people are
> > > running in 1024x768 or larger...
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Steve
> > >
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