Hi Folks (apos for X-posting!)
I've hit a problem with the gnome panel. The top panel on the desktop is the Menu Bar. This is OK. The bottom one is where the problem is.
Normally, this shows the "workspace switcher" with a little box for each workspace; switch by mouse click or Ctrl-Alt-Arrow. No problem with that bit.
It also used to show, for each window that is open in the current workspace, a rectangle with part of the window title in it. If you click on one of these, the corresponding window is minimised; click again, and the window reappears. I don't know what this feature is called. Every time you open a new window, a corresponding rectangle appears; when you close the window, the rectangle dispperas.
Suddenly, without warning, this latter feature has disappeared! I have tried right-click + "add to panel" but cannot find anything that corresponds to it.
I want to restore this feature. Can enyone tell me where to look?
With thanks, Ted.
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On 01/08/10 20:42, (Ted Harding) wrote:
Suddenly, without warning, this latter feature has disappeared! I have tried right-click + "add to panel" but cannot find anything that corresponds to it.
I want to restore this feature. Can enyone tell me where to look?
I think it is called "Window List" in your "add to panel" dialogue.
On 01-Aug-10 22:09:23, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On 01/08/10 20:42, (Ted Harding) wrote:
Suddenly, without warning, this latter feature has disappeared! I have tried right-click + "add to panel" but cannot find anything that corresponds to it.
I want to restore this feature. Can enyone tell me where to look?
I think it is called "Window List" in your "add to panel" dialogue.
Sadly, not so! I tried that. What goes into the panel is an icon such that, if you click on it, up comes a pop-up menu of all open windows. When you click on one of them, you get transferred to that window in the workspace where it lives.
This is not the same as the row of "tabs" for the open (but possibly minimised) windows in the current workspace, which is what has disappeared.
This is getting mysterious! Ted.
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Hi Ted,
Normally in the list of applets (Add to Panel) you have window selector and window list - the first being the little pop-up menu ( this is what I use ) and the second being a clone of Microsoft Windows' taskbar, which seems to be what you're describing - maybe it's simply the odd name that's foxing you?
On 02-Aug-10 10:43:29, Marcus Harris wrote:
Hi Ted,
Normally in the list of applets (Add to Panel) you have window selector and window list - the first being the little pop-up menu ( this is what I use ) and the second being a clone of Microsoft Windows' taskbar, which seems to be what you're describing - maybe it's simply the odd name that's foxing you?
Right! Though what had foxed me is the following.
I had in fact tried both of those.
The Window Selector as you describe is the popup menu, which I do not want. When I tried the second, I found that what I got did not show what I expected in a workspace with several xterm windows: simply a single "xterm" icon with no further info, and only if I clicked on it would I then get a popup list of the windows which I could then use to select.
What I had not realised was that the "Window Selector" is associated with a narrow grey vertical strip which corresponds to the real app, and this had been placed close to the left-hand end of the workspace switcher, leaving a small gap. As a result, all of the windows in that workspace got "rolled into" the one icon within that gap, and no "tabs" (as I was used to) were shown.
Then it occurred to be (following your description above) to move the grey strip along to the extreme left. Once there was room, tabs for all the separate windows appeared in the panel!
So, problem solved now! Thanks. Ted.
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