Panel and Taskbar interaction

[Myles Green]

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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:17:50 -0500
Brian Masinick <masinick at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ideally, I'd like to have both the panel and the taskbar located near 
> the bottom of the screen, one directly above the other.  Perhaps that
> is 
> still possible, but since I installed XFCE 4.2 instead of the Debian 
> 4.0.6 version that I had previously used (for quite some time with
> very 
> good results, I might add), I've had difficulty getting the panel and 
> task bar to do what I want.
> 
> As a compromise, I put the taskbar at the top and set it to auto hide.
>  
> I believe what I used to do is put the taskbar on the bottom of the 
> display and put the panel directly above it, and it worked.  Now I can
> 
> set the panel at the top or the bottom (or left or right, but I don't 
> like that orientation), and I can move it side to side to a certain 
> degree, but I can't seem to move it from the top, bottom, left, or
> right 
> side anchor positions.  Is that now the default behavior, or are there
> 
> any other options that I can set to adjust that will permit me to have
> 
> both panel and taskbar near the bottom (without being on top of each 
> other and without having to auto hide one or both of them)?
> 
> I'd appreciate any insights or suggestions.  I can live with what's 
> there now, but for me, it's a small step b backward in display 
> geometry.  Otherwise, it has been working extremely well in all other 
> respects.

One option that may help in your situation is the taskbar plugin for the
panel. This works well if you don't have too many launchers on your
panel, you can set the plugin to expand making your panel the full width
of your screen. 

I'm not using the taskbar plugin right now but when I do, I use the menu
plugin and one launcher with several entries for the applications I use
most at the left-most end of the panel, followed but the taskbar plugin.
On the right I use the clock, systray plugin, mail-check plugin and the
graphical pager. I also set the panel to medium size. FWIW, my screen
resolution is 1280x1024 - this setup becomes less usable at lower
resolutions.

HTH,

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Myles Green <rmg57 at telus dot net> Calgary AB Canada
Ubuntu Linux 5.04 "Hoary Hedgehog" Dev. Branch 
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
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