[PLUG] Red Hat version 8.0 due out Monday (9/30) (fwd)

[gardnerj at provide.net]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:57:09 -0700 (PDT)
 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 gardnerj at provide.net wrote:
> 
> > Well, I haven't tried this with the panel, but I
>  discovered much to my
> >  delight that xfdeskmenu will show a list of "windows"
>  open in each
> >  desktop *even if they are minimized*! Which for me
>  anyway means I can
> >  make things totally disappear (which is what they do
>  in xfwm4 for me
> >  right now) and still get them back with xfdeskmenu.
>  That could be one way
> >  of vanishing your panel and getting it back with two
>  clicks. That said, I
> >  have not tried minimizing the panel yet, but I don't
>  see why it should
> >  act any diffrent. Xfdeskmenu show it as existing in
>  it's list and would
> >  probably show it in brackets if it were minimized.
>  
> Jonathan,
> 
>   I'd be happy to try this. Where does xfdeskmenu hide
>  out?
> 

If you get your xf* from CVS it's in the xfce-devel/ as
 xfdeskmenu (I think) so follow the CVS instructions and
 get that module. I also like xfdeskmenu as it allows you
 to change your xfwm4 theme on the fly, even if it takes a
 little while sometimes, when loading a theme for the first
 time.

Jonathan