[openbox] Taskbar-like suggestions?

matt m allucid at gmail.com
Sun Oct 3 12:49:34 EDT 2004


On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:36:38 -0400, David Courtney <blixel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been on the list long enough to know that people easily get
> offended if you try to change OB.  Rest assured that's not what I'm
> asking here.  I love OB just how it is.  It's a great Window Manager.
> I don't want to use any other Window Manager.  Now - that said ...
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a minimal pseudo-taskbar?  I'm
> not even sure "taskbar" is really what I'm looking for.  Basically I
> would just like to have 1 click (or double click) access to my
> minimized OB windows.  Something similar to Window Maker would would
> be ideal.  Where you don't actually see a task bar, but the windows
> just iconify to a configurable part of the screen.  (Top left, bottom
> left, top right, bottom right, etc..)
> 
> I've been using fbpanel, but ... I dunno ... I just don't care for it.
> 
> Also - anyone know of a good dock app for "systray" icons for programs
> like gaim and rhytmbox.  wmsystray kinda bites.
> 

fbpanel handels "systray" icons. Put

Plugin {
   type = tray
}

in your config file. There is also docker (search google) which is
like the blackbox slit but it doesn't seem to work for certain
applications (aMule comes to mind).
-- 
matt m
allucid at gmail.com



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