Icons instead of taskbar possible?

[Olivier Fourdan]

Chris,

cp /etc/xfce4/xinitrc $HOME/.xfce4/
chmod +x $HOME/.xfce4/xinitrc

then edit $HOME/.xfce4/xinitrc and comment out xftaskbar4
Add xfce4-iconbox instead.

log out/log on

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 00:01, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:57:04PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > Why, oh why, oh why, oh why are there so many !*"!$%^!"%^ different
> > ways of starting stuff up on X.
> > 
> > I have a ~/.xfce4/xinitrc, changed that, no effect.
> > 
> > I have a .xinitrc, changed that, no effect.
> > 
> > I have a file in ~/Desktop/Autostart, that starts things so I can add
> > xfce4-iconbox there but I still ***** can't turn off the taskbar
> > because it's somewhere else.
> > 
> > ... and no I didn't create ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xfce4/xinitrc, some
> > miserable installation program did.
> > 
> Well I don't know what's starting it:-
> 
>     bash-2.05b$ grep taskbar .*
>     .bash_history:taskbar
>     .bash_history:which xftaskbar
>     .bash_history:which xftaskbar4
>     grep: .vilesock: No such device or address
>     .xinitrc:# xftaskbar4&
>     bash-2.05b$ grep taskbar .*/*
>     grep: ../moz: Permission denied
>     .xfce4/xinitrc:# xftaskbar4&
> 
> ... but:-
> 
> bash-2.05b$ ps -ef | grep taskbar
> chris    11096 11052  0 22:55 ?        00:00:00 xftaskbar4
> 
> 
> So who/what is starting xftaskbar4 ???  (I have exited and restarted)
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Olivier Fourdan - fourdan at xfce.org
   
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