Stacking program Icons on bottom panel in Ubuntu 10.04
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Stacking program Icons on bottom panel in Ubuntu 10.04
Ubuntu 10.04 Gnome Classic
How do I get the programs I'm running stacked instead of an icon for each one on the bottom panel, like I got seven Firefox icons right now and I'd like onkly one.
Thanks,
Paul
Distribution: Debian Testing, Stable, Sid and Manjaro, Mageia 3, LMDE
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Ubuntu 10.04 Gnome Classic
How do I get the programs I'm running stacked instead of an icon for each one on the bottom panel, like I got seven Firefox icons right now and I'd like onkly one.
Thanks,
Paul
Well, I think the best way would be to use Xfce instead of Gnome.
Ok I don't think you understand what I'm talking about. I don't want a launcher. Gnome is perfectly capable of creating launchers in the TOP panel. When you open a program or several instances of Firefox for example, Gnome places each instance separately, along the bottom panel. Ubuntu 11.04, running Gnome classic, stacks each instance of a program on top of one another. So, for instance, if I have 3 instances of fire fox and three libreword documents open, I'll have only 2 icons showing one for Firefox and one for LibreWord. If I click on either one, they will open showing me the three instances of each application and I can then click on the one I want. I think I have version 2.30.2 of Gnome Isn't that the same as gnome Classic?
Do you mean grouping windows? If you right-click the panel there's an option to do that I think.
Ok I finally found the answer on Google. You do right click on the panel, but it matters where you click. You have to click between the icon that shows the desktop and the first window icon on the panel.
Widget, you might want to check your four installs of Gnome and see if this doesn't work
Distribution: Debian Testing, Stable, Sid and Manjaro, Mageia 3, LMDE
Posts: 2,628
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Ok I finally found the answer on Google. You do right click on the panel, but it matters where you click. You have to click between the icon that shows the desktop and the first window icon on the panel.
Widget, you might want to check your four installs of Gnome and see if this doesn't work
Thanks to all those who helped.
Paul
I may do that. Not something I normally need as I use 6 workspaces. Each is dedicated to one or two operations.
WS 1 is where my Iceweasel is launched. I do not think I have ever had more than 3 instances of IW open at once so it is easier to keep track of them with a notice for each instance.
It could be handy if I had more than one instance of Nautilus and several of Gedit on WS2, which does occur at times. I will take a look at it if that happens.
Just got my external drive reformated and started re populating it. Right now, today, I only have 2 installs of Gnome. One KDE, three Xfce and one Lxde. There will be another Sid/experimental install of Gnome soon on the external and possibly another using Mate (some kind of Gnome 2.3? fork I keep hearing about).
I may do that. Not something I normally need as I use 6 workspaces. Each is dedicated to one or two operations.
Yeah WS are something I haven't played around with much and I could see you could accomplish much the same thing with them. However when I'm surfing as well as downloading and other things, I found myself with 10 or 12 firefoxes(plus each with a row of tabs) open at the same time. I know a lot is just wasted space as I just plain forget what I have open! I just get too busy to close the ones I don't need. When I do close them, maybe tomorrow I'll go back and find I've closed one that I now need! Then it's back up to history to try to find it again. So I think if I did use Work Spaces, I would still like to have the windows collected in groups in each one.
Paul
BTW I've changed the option to open in groups and right now I have 5 firefoxes open, stacked, and my one workspace is uncluttered now. I guess I'm just multi-task oriented!
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