minimizing apps in XFCE4

[Net Llama!]

On 10/14/2002 03:43 PM, Jonathan Gardner wrote:
> On Monday, the 14th day of October, in the year of our Lord 2002, at 04:02
> PM
> the esteemed person of letters, Net Llama! quoth:
> 
> NL> I really should save these up in 1 large email, my apologies...
> NL> 
> NL> I'm using XFCE4, and whenever i minimize an app (i've tried Mozilla
> NL> and an xterm) it disapears. There is no icon for it anywhere on the
> NL> desktop that i can see.  This worked just fine in XFCE3.  So, i can't
> NL> figure out any way of getting the app back, other than killing it and
> NL> restarting it.
> 
> Several ways, well a couple of ways. One is IF you get xfdeskmenu working
> there's a part of that that lists apps per desktop, both open and
> minimized which you can bring back by selecting from that.  Another way is
> by opening the GNOME panel which will display minimized apps. Another way,
> although I have not tried it is to use ROX which apparently has a feature
> that iconifies minimized apps. I believe there is work or at lest talk
> being down about an xfce4 taskbar and perhaps a xfwm4 minimized app/icon
> feature.

OK, thanks.  So from what you're saying, there is not currently any 
functionality that just simply places the icons on the desktop, like in 
XFCE3.

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