xfce with taskbar

[Collins]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:35:44 -0500 "David A. Bandel"
<david at pananix.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:43:35 -0600
> begin  Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> spewed forth:
> 
> > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:20:25 -0400 Michael Scottaline
> > <nbhs2 at i-2000.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:44:34 -0500
> > > "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> scribbled intuitively:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >Have you tried Blackbox?  What you have sounds similar.
> > > ====================================
> > > I have played w/ many different wm's [ice, xfce, windowmaker,
> > > fvwm, and Enlightenment (up to v. 0.16.5), and the "big two"]. 
> > > Ultimately, I keep coming back to Blackbox.
> > > 
> > 
> > There was something essential that I found to be missing with
> > Blackbox, but I can't remember what.  I'll have to try it again. 
> > Oh, does it restart applications automatically?  I'm really stuck
> > on that xfce feature - everything I run comes back on the same
> > desktop I left it at restart.  Since I don't have a continuously
> > running system(uptime averages 3-4 hours), that's an important
> > feature.
> 
> That's called "session manglement" is the crap that drove me away
> from XFCE.  You see, if you put, say, xdaliclock on the XDM root
> window, then have it carry through to a user session, with session
> management, each time you log in you get one more xdaliclock.  The
> system gets real slow when several users (I have all the other
> systems in the house running as xterminals) have over 100 instances
> each of xdaliclock piled up in the corner of their screen.  And each
> upgrade I'd have to go back through all the user's configurations
> and turn off session manglement. Horrible crap. But the XFCE
> maintainer likes it.
>

I can sympathize with your problem, but I don't run anything from the
root window, including xdaliclock.  I start xfce, then place
everything I want on a desktop, including xdaliclock and leaving space
for it on the other desktops, then I make xdaliclock sticky.  Once
it's setup, it's self replenishing.

I also force the top margin to be 30 to leave room for the taskbar. 
Everything honors that except for galeon and mozilla.  They insist on
starting at 0 0, so I have to drag them down, if I need to see the
titlebar.

Works like a champ for me, but YMMV.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla