Re: Too many items on Gnome Window List

[Stephen Kühn <stephen kuhn gmx net>]

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 04:27, Norman Shapiro wrote:
>                              BACKGROUND
> 
> The Gnome Menu Panel (as distributed by RedHat 9.0) has a window list consisting
> of an item for each open window on the current Gnome Workspace.
> 
> Once there are 4 or 5 windows on a Gnome Workspace, this window list becomes
> hard to use.  This poses an especial problem for applications which open several
> windows.  These applications generate a separate window list item for each
> window.
> 
> However, some applications only generate one window list item no matter how many
> windows they have open.  The single window list item for these applications
> generates a pop-up menu for all the windows of that application.  Examples of
> such applications are Mozilla, yelp (the Gnome help facility) and,
> (collectively) all OpenOffice applications.
> 
>                              QUESTION
> 
> How can can I force an application, that I write, to generate only one window
> list item, as Mozilla, yelp, and OpenOffice do?
> 

You can change the preferences on the panel to show applications
grouped; hence you won't get a crowded taskbar.

(Right-click the task bar => preferences => always group simmilar tasks)

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