Re: Taskbar

[jared]

I see u'r point. u can however change the amount of space the taskbar takes up on the screen. for instance, i have mine set to the bottom left and it only takes up 28% of the screen width. making it very small, but still avalible. not to mention, in order to use the tabbed windows in a taskbar u would end up using the mouse, so for that matter, u could just use the right and left arrows on the right side of taskbar to switch between windows. or if u really want to get away from using the mouse, there is allways the ever popular and usefull bbkeys. w/ that u can setup the windows alt+tab to flip through the current windows. then u dont have to use the mouse at all.

thats the beauty of the linux environment and community. there are options.


Simon A. F. Lund wrote:
> jared wrote:
>
>> dont know if u can do that, but also dont know why u would want to.
>> middle click choose desktop shows all active windows and middle click
>> icon shows all iconified windows.
>>
>> so much cleaner that way.
>>
>> i fell in love w/ BB for the same reason most of my freinds did.
>> easy on the resorces and ALL That Clean Desktop realastate.
>> so clean, so eligant, so sexy.
>>
>> why would u want to clutter it up w/ unessisary items?
>>
>>
>> as far as keyboard nav, that has been a running discusion on this
>> forum for some time now. havnt keep up w/ it that much due to the
>> fact that I dont really need it myself, but i believe its being added
>> to v0.70. I think.
>>
>>
>> Simon A. F. Lund wrote:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > This is a newbie question so bare with me ;)
>> > I would like to have all windows (iconified, active and so on) in the
>> > taskbar, like the way its done in MS Windows and many other WM's.
>> > My question is, how is this possible?
>> > Another question is, is it possible to navigate the menus with the
>> > Arrow-keys? This would be real cool since i like to use my mouse as
>> > little as possible :)
>> >
>> > I hope you will take your time to answer a newbie :)
>> >
>> > regards
>> >
>> > Simon A. F. Lund
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
> Well just because a WM is a graphical thing, should it then require the
> use of a mouse? Its really a thing i find anoying, cause 90% of the time
> all im doing is sitting in rxvt and the last 10% is google'ing for info :)
> I simply dont wanna use the mouse for such an operation, its a waste of
> time and precious muscle power (remember to only lift your arm when
> reaching for coffee or Coke :)
> And since the taskbar is there and taking up some of that precious space
> why not put it to some use?
> Having the windows down there helps you to easier and faster
> navigation/tabbing. And isn't it the purpose of the taskbar to inform
> you about stuff? I mean it shows the name of your current desktop, time
> and current window, why not all the windows on the current desktop?
> But hey thats just me ;)
>
>



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