-- Scott Furt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 23 January 2003, 08:43 PM -0500): > Whereas i agree that minimal is good, and blackbox is very good, > i do think it would be nice to have a very minimal "tasklist" bar > similar to MS windows. > > The only feature that i really like in Windows is the taklist > bar at the bottom showing me what i've currently got open. > I frequently maximize my windows, so it's a bit of a pain > sometimes to ALT+TAB through 10 windows to get to the one i want. > > ...But i'm not complaining - the positives of blackbox far > outweight the negatives of Windows. :-) > > > To Shaleh: > Out of sheer curiosity, what would it entail (in terms of time > to write the code) to add a feature like that into blackbox? > > All i would want is a horizontal bar with the list of all > windows on a current desktop, and the ability to make it > "always on top". My understanding is that this would be quite a bit of coding, but I'm sure Shaleh will correct me if I'm wrong.
You might look into invoking GNOME's "panel" (if you have GNOME installed already, but aren't using it, just type 'panel' in a terminal, or start it in your .xinitrc) and utilizing its tasklist. Another option is to use ROX-Filer's panel -- somebody's written a tasklist plugin for it, which you can find by searching the rox-users mailing list archives (it might even be linked from the rox website). It may not work with blackbox 0.65.x -- haven't tried it myself -- but it should probably work with the 0.70.0 cvs (which adds netwm support, which will go a long way towards creating compatibility with desktop environments). Basically, this sort of thing has already been done, and shouldn't necessarily be thought of as part of the window managers' domain -- use an existing tasklist program and run it *from* the window manager. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
