On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > > You can add a new panel and drag to the right screen edge to make > it vertical. > Go to panel properties and increase the size to make it fatter. Then add a > "Window List" applet to it and you will have a readable vertical list of > app > tabs. > > The other alternative is to add a "Window Selector" applet that > appears as a > small button on the panel. Clicking it will bring up a list of the running > apps > which you can switch to.
Thanks! Both of these suggestions are quite helpful. The "Window List" is not too helpful since there is a limit imposed on how wide a pane can be so only about 12 characters are displayed. The Window Selector is nice since it takes very little space and displays lots of text. Another problem that I am facing is that when I create a launcher, the text associated with the launcher only appears when the launcher is an icon on the desktop. When a launcher is in a pane or a drawer, the text is not displayed. Is there a way around this problem? In CDE's window manager (and all previous window managers I have used) it is very easy to create "lanuchers" via single line entries in a menu definition file. There are many specific commands (e.g. start xterm on host X) that I need to migrate to launchers. In order to make this feasable, the launcher icon needs to be displayed with text. Thanks, Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
