Re: [opensuse] How to consolidate tasks in the task bar?

On Monday 09 March 2009 12:09:19 Josef Wolf wrote:
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:18:26AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
wrote:
Right click an empty area of the "Task Manager" widget, and
choose
"Task Manager Settings" from the popup. In the "Task Manager
Settings" dialog that appears, under the "General" task your
will see
a "Grouping & Sorting" section that will adjust how/when
separate
tasks are collapsed.

Thanks for your response, Stephen!

For some reason, I can not find that setting. I can not find
the
"Grouping & Sorting" section. There's only:

Alignment
-> left
-> middle
-> right
Visibility
-> always
-> hide automatically
-> Control bar can be hidden by windows
-> remove control bar

No, that's the "More Settings" (which isn't really even a dialog
in the traditional sense) from the panel configuration, which
adjusts the panel as a whole. You want the "Task Manager
Settings" which affects that specific widget.

The "Task Manager" is just a widget that resides on the panel,
which is very similar to KDE 3, where the "Task List" (or whatever
it was called) was just an applet that resided on a kicker panel.

It can be difficult to find an empty area of the "Task Manager" to
click on, if it is completely full there may be no empty area. I
think in KDE 3 there was always a few pixels that you could use to
get the "Task Manager" popup, instead of the individual task
popup, but in KDE 4 that's not true.

In KDE 4, if you will click that panel "Cashew", so that you get
the "Screen Edge" and "Width"/"Height" controls, widgets will be
forbidden from handling right-click events. This makes it so
right-clicking anywhere in the "Task Manager" widget (even on a
task button) will give you the "Task Manager" popup, where you can
choose "Task Manager Settings" and get the dialog I spoke of
previously.

"Simple" steps to get the dialog I spoke of:
1) Make sure your widgets are unlocked.
a) If they are locked, there will be no panel cashew to click.
b) If they are locker, you should be able to right-click on the
desktop or a panel and choose "Unlock Widgets".
2) Click the panel cashew.
3) Right click a task on the "Task Manager".
4) Choose "Task Manager Settings".
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