starting apps sticky in XFce4

[Biju Chacko]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:19:11 +0100, Remco Lubbers wrote:
 
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:47:39 +0530, Biju Chacko said:
> >  > 2. How would I go about if I do not want to use the taskbar? Can't
> >  > disable it in the settings. I just use "startxfce4" to start XFce4, but
> >  > no line here that I can just comment out. have looked at the files in
> >  > ~/.xfce4 but could not figure it out, can''t be that hard though.
> >  
> >  copy /etc/xfce4/xinitrc to .xfce4/ (or edit in place for a system wide
> >  change) chmod +x it
> >  edit it and comment out the line that has 'xftaskbar4'.
> >  you may want to uncomment the line that says 'xfce4-iconbox' otherwise your
> >  windows will just disappear when you minimize them.
> 
> Did that with /usr/local/etc/xfce4/xinitrc (the only xfce4 related xinitrc I

That's a proper alternative location.

> could find). Commented out the xftaskbar4& line and added xfce4-iconbox&
> instead (there was no commented iconbox line).
> After restarting XFce4 I had both the taskboar and the iconbox! The only way
> to get rid of the taskbar was by commenting out the taskbarline in
> /usr/local/etc/xfce4/xinitrc, so apparently XFce4 looks at both files during
> startup?

It doesn't. Recheck your edit.

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