arrangement of desktop app launcers

[houghi]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 07:11:29AM -0700, Ray Andrews wrote:
> On 13/05/12 02:12 AM, houghi wrote:
> >
> >I never understood the idea of desktop icons. I have a program running and
> >if I want another one, I first must close or minimize the one I am working
> >on?
> Me neither, I never use my desktop icons. Is there some way to
> disable that entire subsystem?

In the Setteings Manager, go to Desktop and then to the tab Icons.
There you select "None" If "None" is already selected, select some random
"Icon Type" and change back to "None".
Now no icons should be visible.

> >Also the restriction of one menu button is very limited and it is never on
> >the importance and order that I want.
> >
> >So here is what I do (I have three monitors, so YMMV)
> >1) Have each monitor have its own desktops. So no Xinerama. This is the
> >most important reason I run XFCE. GNOME and KDE can't do that.
> I do the same, but I had no problem doing that with Gnome 2 either.

I am unable to get a non-xinerame running under GNOME, but then I did not
look very long as XFCE ticks all the boxes.
The cause of it all is somewhere between NVidea, GNOME and perhaps
openSUSE and all point to the others.

> >2) Each Monitor has 6 desktops. When I change desktops on one screen, I
> >still see the others.
> Me too.  There is one and only one thing I miss from Windows XP and
> that is that little utility that lets you throw a window from one
> screen to the other. The utility adds an extra button up by the
> 'close/maximize/minimize' buttons, and if you click that button,
> that whole window is moved to another monitor and resized to fit.

Should be possible as e.g. GIMP has the ability to move one to another
screen with "View, Move to Screen."
I do open programs with e.g. `DISPLAY=:0.0 firefox -P Left &`

This brings me to the program that causes most of the problems when
working this way: firefox.
It needs several profiles. One for each monitor.
As there are several profiles, it does not launch correctly from the
startup. I need to select the profile
I need to install workarounds to get the profiles the same.

However an extra button (or pulldown in case of more then one monitor) to
move stuff to would be a very nice to have thing. People tend to have
multiple screens. One on their laptop and another on the desktop.

houghi
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