arrangement of desktop app launcers

[Ray Andrews]

On 13/05/12 07:57 AM, houghi wrote:
> 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.
Yes, but I mean disable the whole code for desktop icons.  When I 
eventually get around to building xfce from source, I'll just comment 
out the whole system.
>
> 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."
>
Interesting.  I wonder if there are tools in gtk or something like that 
that would let me write a little utility to do it.