taskbar expander confusion

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 10/12/2005 1:41 PM, Carol Spears wrote:
> hello,
> 
> thank you for your work and how easy my desktop is to work with and how
> nice it looks.
> 
> recently something appeared in the taskbar or at least my eye picked it
> up.  it might be my theme misbehaving or i might have the idea wrong but
> the taskbar is now showing some expanders in the upper-right corners of
> the entries there.  
> 
> my project, gimp, gets these suckers every once in a while as well.  i
> tend to blame it on a clash between usability experts and beautifier
> experts.
> 
> when i first saw these expander things in the task bar, my first idea
> was that i would be able to use different sizes in the taskbar for the
> different tasks that appear there -- which would have been useful to me.
> i think they are being used to tell that there is more than one task
> being represented there.  the little symbol though looks like a mouse
> should be able to grab it and resize it though.
> 
> here are some screenshots:
> http://carol.gimp.org/files/screenshot-2005-10-12-4x-expander.png for an
> enlarged view of what i am try to explain here.
> http://carol.gimp.org/files/screenshot-2005-10-12.png
> my apologies to xfterm developers and xfmedia player.  the xfterm has
> been difficult for me to migrate to and xfmedia player came broken
> broken broken from debian.
> 
> thanks again for the desktop that me and debian and the developers who
> made me use debian can agree on.

Those aren't expanders.  It's just an indication that the taskbar has
"grouped" several windows of the same application under the same taskbar
button to conserve space.  I believe there's an option somewhere to
disable this behavior if you don't like it.

FYI: xfterm4 is just a wrapper script that runs your preferred terminal
emulator (whatever's in the TERMCMD environment variable).

	-brian

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