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Thrillhouse

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From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 175

XFCE panel question

I hope I can phrase this question right.  I'm not sure what kind of terminology to use but I'll give it a shot.

How do I get the "Start Panel" and the "Application Tray" to both be on the same panel.  I've tried placing them right next to each other but when the Application Try grows when new windows are opened, it expands over the Start Panel.  I know it's possible to do because I've seen screenshots like this one:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c … ce-4.4.png

but I'm not sure how to get it that way.  I've tried using Panel Manager but I don't know how to add the Application Tray.  Also, does anyone know which icon set that is?  I'd actually like my desktop to look almost exactly like that.

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Thrillhouse

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From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 175

Re: XFCE panel question

Actually, I think I may have figured it out.  I'll post back here if I haven't, though.

Thanks.

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: XFCE panel question

Actually, I think I may have figured it out.  I'll post back here if I haven't, though.

And if you figured it out, also post back for saying how you did it, in case someone is interested.

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Thrillhouse

Member

From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 175

Re: XFCE panel question

Actually, I think I may have figured it out.  I'll post back here if I haven't, though.

And if you figured it out, also post back for saying how you did it, in case someone is interested.

If you right-click on the panel and select "Add New Item" there's a choice in the list to add a "Task List" which is essentially what I was thinking of when I was trying to get an "Application Tray".  I'm still trying to customize it, though.  Will report back later.

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dunc

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From: Glasgow, UK

Registered: 2007-06-18

Posts: 559

Re: XFCE panel question

A thought: is your panel set to be "full width", in the centre? A "normal width" panel in the bottom left, with the Task List's "Minimum Width" parameter set just nicely to hit the right edge of the screen when empty would behave exactly as you describe.

Panel Manager: Fixed Position, centre (ie, one of the middle buttons in the square array of 12 placement buttons), Normal Width.
Task List: Set the Minimum Width to 100. No, really. In a "normal width" panel, it'll always expand to fit the space available, and if you set this value to the lowest possible, you won't run into any more problems if you add more stuff to the panel, or your System Tray fills up with icons: the List will just contract to give them space. Obviously, if it gets too small, you might want to change it to something larger, but for the moment, it should work fine like that.

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