minimizing apps in XFCE4

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Biju Chacko wrote:
> 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).

Excellent, i forgot about that (i never really used it under XFCE3).
thanks.

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