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[HairyWill]

The maximised window size is controlled by the window manager, jwm. But I think the only way currently to restrict the maximised window size is to create a tray (taskbar), which would probably sit on top of wbar and would look ugly whichever way it turned out.

I agree that a tray at the top (or bottom) and wbar at the other would look good but I think it will require a hack of jwm to achieve it.

[HairyWill]

Ok Vettephil I rise to the challenge as long as you are willing to give up a single pixel of you desktop to a dummy jwm tray.

Assuming you have the default sized wbar at the bottom of a 1024x768 screen the following tray entry in /root/.jwmrc-tray gets what you asked for.

[Vettephil]

HairyWill: Nicely done! That has however produced another issue to overcome. When minimizing an app's window to the "fake tray" there is no way to get it back again. See if you can reproduce.

My thought around this is to run 2 trays if possible. A normal one at the top and the fake one at the bottom as a place holder for Wbar. I'm going to test this next. Thanks!

[Vettephil]

A second tray worked! Here is my full code from /.jwmrc-tray:

[HairyWill]

I had just assumed you would have a proper tray running as well.

The real tray wouldn't be so important if jwm supported unminimising using the keyboard alone but at the moment ALT-TAB only toggles programs that are not minimised. This is IMHO a significant weakness.

[Dougal]

[Vettephil]

[trapster]

Vettephil -
Right click in a Rox window and choose "options". Under the "Pinboard" menu, choose "Iconified windows".

[magerlab]

very nice and interesting app
is there a wat to put it into xinitrc file?
i think that itś possible to remove icons and font from the package because
you can define path to any icon or font(to support russian i defined dejavu instead the font that was inside the pack)
i use different rox panels with different walpapers
but wbar sticks to the first wallpaper
is it possible to turn off transparency?

also does anyone know where rox takes the pictures for placing minimized apps on the desktop?
some of them are just empty windows instead of icon

[yim]

is there a way to get this to run on 2.16 multisession cd
I have tried every way I can think of and it still doesn't work
how do you make it run after untaring?

thanks yim

[nutts4life]

Hi there,

Has anybody found a solution to HarryWill's .jwmrc option to stop wbar appearing in the tray?

I've tried all kinds of formats and positions of:

<Group>
<Name>wbar*</Name>
<Class>wbar*</Class>
<Option>nolist</Option
</Group>

in the .jwmrc file and the wbar entry still appears in my tray.
Has anybody managed to stop this appearing?

I have a feeling it's not working becuase the app is being started from the .jwmrc file itself.

Thanks,

n4l

[prit1]

Where do you have the wbar stuff? Is it in .xinitrc, or .jwmrc-tray or .jwmrc?

Anyway, just have it in only one place and try using

[nutts4life]

I've got the script in .jwmrc-tray and it has -above-desk in the call.

I was under the impression that the -above-desk is essential to keeping the wbar start ontop of the ROX pinboard.

so where is your call? Is it also in .jwmrc-tray?

do you every lose the focus of wbar with -above-desk left out?

do you have the nolist option in your .jwmrc as well?

thanks for your help,

n4l

[prit1]

My script is just before the minixcal in the .jwmrc-tray. I didnt have to do anything else.

[prit1]

I thought I will explain the different options I tried with wbar and how I could get the setup as in the screenshot shown below.

This is my current wbar setup: This does just before minixcal in the .jwmrc-tray