Icons instead of taskbar possible?

[Jack Coates]

On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 14:57, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 02:49:06PM -0800, Jack Coates wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 14:40, Chris Green wrote:
> > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:52:25AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Chris Green wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Can I turn the taskbar off completely and have icons instead?
> > > > 
> > > >   Yup.
> > > > 
> > > > > After my recent upgrade from 3.x.x to 4.0.1 I find that the taskbar is
> > > > > just an irritation.
> > > > 
> > > >   You're not the Lone Ranger here.
> > > > 
> > > > > I see there's something called "Lil'Star Iconbox" but when I minimise
> > > > > applications they just seem to go to the taskbar, I'd much prefer them to
> > > > > go to the Iconbox.
> > > > 
> > > >   Silly name, but it works when turned on.
> > > > 
> > > >   In ~/.xfce4/initrc (I _think_ that's the file), uncomment the line with
> > > > iconbox& and comment the line with taskbar&. Exit X, startx, and enjoy.
> > > > 
> > > Well commenting out taskbar is easy enough but there's no iconbox
> > > line, assuming iconbox is right I'll just try adding it.
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > 
> > [jack at chupacabra jack]$ grep -r iconbox .xfce4/
> > .xfce4/xinitrc:xfce4-iconbox &
> > 
> 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.

take a complex system with twenty years of ingrown features and "we'll
just simplify this" changes, then add a bunch of distro people trying to
automate everything so it's easy enough for grandma :-)

The exact incantation to make it go is distribution specific.
--
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