How to remove an app from the taskbar?

[Moritz Heiber]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 06:16:22 +0800
"David O'Shaughnessy" <doshaugh at student.ecu.edu.au> wrote:

> Hello all, is there any way in XFce4 to have an application not appear
> on the taskbar? So it is running yes, but not showing up on the
> taskbar. I asked the creator of the application if he could code this
> feature in and he told me;
> 
> "The required functionaility should be part of your window manager.
> You should be able specify that windows with certain properties (i.e.
> the WM_CLASS for XMMS) are hidden.
> 
> Under GNOME2 it is provided by the devilspie utility which uses the
> freedestop.org WM spec to make these things happen. If your window
> manager doesn't provide the functionailty natively, but does support
> the freedesktop.org WM spec then you may be able to use that."
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what this devilspie utility is, but maybe this could
> help? Thanks.

No, the state has to be requested by the application (like gkrellm is
doing this f.e.).

Bye,

Moritz