Dock apps and XFCE4

[Peter N. Spotts]

> 
> On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 18:27, Paul Hunnisett wrote:
> 
 Also - is it possible to dock applications anywhere at all?
> 

Paul,

One subscriber to this list does run a few dock apps with XFCE4 (not me). I've tried it, but the apps always appear in tiny windows (complete with title bar) that must be hand-placed each time you start XFCE4. So unless I'm missing something (always possible!), dock apps don't integrate as well on XFCE at the moment as they do on WindowMaker, Blackbox, or Fluxbox. These have have "slits" or "docks" -- portions of the desktop dedicated to them -- into which the apps can fit. However, Gkrellm works just fine with XFCE4. I find it gives me all of the monitoring capablity I want, with plenty left over for eye-candy, such as local weather-radar and weather-map displays through a plug-in called gkrellkam.

You can always try the dock apps, but give Gkrellm a shot as well.

Best,

Pete

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