[Taskbar Plugin] Option to only show windows from current screen (for multihead systems).

Stephan Arts stephan at xfce.org
Sat Aug 11 01:16:15 CEST 2007


On 8/10/07, Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:
> 2007/8/10, William Beene <wbeene at gestalt-llc.com>:
> > Stephan Arts wrote:
> > > On 8/8/07, Ori Bernstein <ori at eigenstate.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:06:17 -0500, William Beene <wbeene at gestalt-llc.com> said:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> Hello,
> > >>>     I would like to work on this.  I've briefly looked at the source
> > >>> code for both the taskbar plugin in xfce panel and also the
> > >>> netk-tasklist source code and it looks like I would have to modify both.
> > >>> I'm wondering how difficult this would be and where I can find the
> > >>> information to get started.
> > >>>
> > >> I belive that the plan is to drop libnetk soon, and move to libwnck. If
> > >> it hasn't already been ported in svn, you may want to look at doing the
> > >> porting first.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I have created a patch already (it is available somewhere in the
> > > archives), but libwnck does not yet behave simmilar to our netk.
> > >
> > > Anything but maximize/restore and close is disabled for some reason.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Stephan
> > >
> > I've looked for this patch and cannot find it. Any information regarding
> > the location would be greatly appreciated. Especially what month it was
> > posted.
>
> I think this is the one:
>
> http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2007-July/023332.html
>
> BTW, Stephan, I'm sorry I haven't responded, yet. I should finally
> have some time again for Xfce stuff in the coming week. We should
> probably just make the switch to libwnck and fix stuff that breaks as
> we go along.

Well, at the moment minimize/move and resize won't work from the
window-menu in the tasklist plugin and iconbox. But this only happends
when using xfwm4, not with metacity or openbox.

I have no idea what could be causing this behaviour, any idea?

Stephan



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