Re: task bar...

Its a dock not a taskbar. 

Just grab mmenu and build it from source. Alternatively wait for it to
appear in debian ( the 0.6 is being packaged for debian and will
appear soon in unstable )

  -- Matthew

on Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:31:41PM +0100, Freya wrote:
> Now that the bar at the bottom of my screen doesn't show the running
> tasks, I'm starting to wonder what I need it for? I seem to remember I
> can turn it off from looking through the matchbox rc file but I'm
> wondering about launching apps still...
>
> I'm thinking that I could have a full screen program that just runs all
> the time with a menu of applications. I could then select a program and
> it would run and the program would have no close button and hopefully
> wouldn't segfault. Trouble is that it would be sitting there eating
> memory all the time for no good reason. Then again if it was small
> enough it might be as small as having the launcher code that even starts
> a menu, something like I'm describing could be quite simple after all.
> 
> On the other hand maybe there could be another button on the titlebar
> somewhere for a program launcher? It might make the title bar kind of
> cluttered tho and I also have some trouble on my laptop with edgelight
> intensity, My screen looks like one of those old photographs, kind of
> foggy at the edges, (always makes me think of the titles for bagpuss) so
> it might be hard for me to see another button?
> 
> Speaking of the title bar, double clicking it doesn't seem to make it
> hide like I thought it would?
> 
> I still need to try that launcher you mentioned! I assume if it is alpha
> that there isn't a debian package for it?
> 
> love
> 
> Freya
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