Re: Lock taskbar in place?

On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 06:42:25PM +0000, Bernd Eggink wrote
> On 01.01.2014 16:21, Franklin McCormick wrote:
> > On 01/01/14 09:49 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 03:16:04PM -0600, matt wrote
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> I work for a Fortune 500 retail chain and we currently have thousands of
> >>> IceWM deployments in production. Given that these rigs are used by
> >>> non-technical people they sometimes drag the taskbar  by accident and end
> >>> up calling our help desk to relieve the issue.
> >>>
> >>> I've done some digging through the documentation and I'm not seeing any
> >>> options to lock the taskbar at the bottom. Am I missing something?
> >>
> >>     I didn't know you could drag it.  The only way I'm aware of changing
> >> its location is editing ~/.icewm/preferences (or ~/.icewm/prefoverride).
> >> The lines in ~/.icewm/preferences are
> >>
> >> #  Task bar at top of the screen
> >> # TaskBarAtTop=0 # 0/1
> >>
> >>     The only thing I can think of is that somebody sets
> >>
> >> TaskBarAtTop=1
> >>
> >>     in either ~/.icewm/preferences or ~/.icewm/prefoverride.
> >>
> >
> >
> >      AFAIK the taskbar is not draggable. I'd like to know how they
> > managed that :)
> 
> Very simple: ALT-click and drag. In this respect, the task bar behaves 
> like other windows.

  So that's how they did it.  Restarting ICEWM with the command...

killall -HUP /usr/bin/icewm

...fixes that, as ICEWM re-initializes, but all apps, etc, remain open.
At least you have a quick-n-dirty solution.  I have that command in my
ICEWM menu, so that I can add new entries and restart ICEWM, without
having to exit X, and get back in.  The display flickers for a couple of
seconds, and the new menu items become available.

-- 
Walter Dnes <[email protected]>

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