minimizing apps in XFCE4

[Biju Chacko]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:43:03 -0400, 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
> NL> Mozilla and an xterm) it disapears. There is no icon for it
> NL> anywhere on the desktop that i can see.  This worked just fine in
> NL> XFCE3.  So, i can't figure out any way of getting the app back,
> NL> other than killing it and 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.

You can also use Alt-Tab to circulate amongst all windows (minimized
ones too).

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