[openbox] Do I NEED an external panel app?

[Jason Mobarak]

Hi,

All I use is OpenBox (beta1 right now, about to compile beta2..) and I do not 
have this problem. It's possible there's some other factor playing into this...

Cheers.

--jason

On 10:55 Tue 09 Sep     , Dugan Chen wrote:
> 
> >>>The "desktops" menu doesn't show minimized windows, and alt-tab doesn't 
> >>>take me to them.
> >>
> >>eek they do!
> >
> >I just tested this with Beta 2. If I minimze a window when I'm not running 
> >a panel, then the window completely disappears. It does not appear in the 
> >desktops menu or when I try to alt-tab to it.
> 
> I just tested this some more. The only time I can get the behavior you 
> describe (with minimized icons appearing in both the desktops menu and in 
> alt-tab) is when I'm running an external app (kicker, gnome-panel, 
> rox-filer, fbpanel...) that handles minimized windows.
> 
> If I were to start up Openbox and nothing else, then start an xterm, then 
> minimize that xterm, then the xterm would not appear in the desktops menu 
> and I would not be able to alt-tab to it.
> 
> Not a problem. I'll just load gnome-panel each time I start Openbox.
> 
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