Second panel on second monitor?

Stephan Hässelbarth videns at freenet.de
Wed Feb 14 16:24:46 CET 2007


Stefan Stuhr schrieb:
> ons, 14 02 2007 kl. 15:33 +0100, skrev Stephan Hässelbarth:
>> Hi,
>>
>> yesterday I upgraded my Xfce from 4.2.3. to 4.4.0. The update went well and such, the only 
>> thing I am missing is the panel and taskbar on my second monitor. While it was supported via 
>> separate configuration files in 4.2.x I can't even launch a second instance of xfce4-panel on 
>> the second screen. How do I get my second panel back?
> 
> The panel have been rewritten for Xfce 4.4. Among other things, it now
> supports multiple panels (one xfce4-panel process with multiple panels).
> The taskbar and iconbox utilities have been deprecated, and have been
> made as panel plugins instead.
> 
> How to make more panels:
>       * Right click on [one of] your panel[s], and select "Customize
>         Panel" in the menu.
>       * In the "Panel Manager" window, there's a combobox in the top of
>         the window with the the text "Panel x", where x is the number of
>         the panel currently being configured. At the right of this
>         combobox, there's two buttons with a "-" (remove) icon and a
>         "+" (add) icon. Click on the "+" (add) icon.
>       * You now have a new panel, and all you have to do is to configure
>         it and add the plugins you want. You should be able to configure
>         on which monitor the panel should appear.
>       * You can do this again if you want a taskbar on each monitor as
>         well.
> 

Thanks a lot. I did oversee it completely.

Stephan



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