Applications from all workspaces show up in taskbar (compiz-fusion & KDE 3.5.10)

Slacker Steve · 12-15-2008, 08:09 AM

Any idea how I can make the taskbar only show applications from the current workspace?

Thanks in advance

bgeddy · 12-15-2008, 08:32 AM

Are you talking about KDE and by workspace do you mean desktop ?

If the answer to both these is yes then do the following -

Code:

right click on the panel
select configure panel
select taskbar
uncheck "show windows from all desktops"

Now each desktop should only show it's own applications in the taskbar.

Slacker Steve · 12-15-2008, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bgeddy

Are you talking about KDE and by workspace do you mean desktop ?

If the answer to both these is yes then do the following -

Code:

right click on the panel
select configure panel
select taskbar
uncheck "show windows from all desktops"

Now each desktop should only show it's own applications in the taskbar.

Yes and yes.

But I can't seem to find the "show windows from all desktops" you mentioned.

Screenshot:
http://www.vulomedia.com/images/78817snapshot3.png

bgeddy · 12-15-2008, 09:17 AM

Look at the "Configure - KDE panel" window which has the top section titled "Configure the panel taskbar" where a checkbox is right at the top for "Show windows from all desktops",

Here's another way :

Code:

from Kicker menu - Control Centre,Desktop,Taskbar,Show windows from all desktops.

Sorry - I've just looked at you screen shot and the checkbox appears to be missing - don't know why. Are you sure you have multiple desktops setup ?
Check Control Centre,Desktop,Multiple deskktop. The only time I can get this button to disappear,(Show windows from all desktops), is when my multiple desktops is set to 1.

Yet more apologies - I've just reread the title and noticed you are using Compiz-fusion. Maybe this is the difference ? I'll have to look at thread titles more carefully in future !

Slacker Steve · 12-15-2008, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bgeddy

Sorry - I've just looked at you screen shot and the checkbox appears to be missing - don't know why. Are you sure you have multiple desktops setup ?
Check Control Centre,Desktop,Multiple deskktop. The only time I can get this button to disappear,(Show windows from all desktops), is when my multiple desktops is set to 1.

Yet more apologies - I've just reread the title and noticed you are using Compiz-fusion. Maybe this is the difference ? I'll have to look at thread titles more carefully in future !

Yep, that was my problem.

I set multiple desktops to 4 and successfully unchecked "show windows from all desktops," but it didn't work. I guess this is something to do with Compiz, you advice works perfectly with Kwin.

Thanks for the helps so far

T3slider · 12-15-2008, 09:24 PM

Compiz was very strange when it comes to KDE. I haven't tried it recently, so I don't know if it has improved in this regard. Compiz insists on using 'viewports' instead of just assigning each virtual desktop to each face of the cube. Unfortunately, if you set up up four desktops, you will get 4 sides of the cube for EACH desktop instead of just four sides period. Also, I think the "To Desktop" button may disappear in the window's context menu (but I may be wrong there...even if it is there though, it will send it to the next desktop, which still has four sides of the cube). Again, this may have changed dramatically since I last used compiz. However, to use compiz optimally you should really use Gnome (or maybe XFCE) instead of KDE (of course, you can always use compiz suboptimally). Stuff like this is why I stopped using compiz. Search for "compiz KDE pager" or some such thing for more information. Maybe someone can correct me and tell me my information is out-dated?

Slacker Steve · 12-15-2008, 11:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by T3slider

Compiz was very strange when it comes to KDE. I haven't tried it recently, so I don't know if it has improved in this regard. Compiz insists on using 'viewports' instead of just assigning each virtual desktop to each face of the cube. Unfortunately, if you set up up four desktops, you will get 4 sides of the cube for EACH desktop instead of just four sides period. Also, I think the "To Desktop" button may disappear in the window's context menu (but I may be wrong there...even if it is there though, it will send it to the next desktop, which still has four sides of the cube). Again, this may have changed dramatically since I last used compiz. However, to use compiz optimally you should really use Gnome (or maybe XFCE) instead of KDE (of course, you can always use compiz suboptimally). Stuff like this is why I stopped using compiz. Search for "compiz KDE pager" or some such thing for more information. Maybe someone can correct me and tell me my information is out-dated?

Yeah I noticed that as well.

I also have XFCE installed and it seems to work alright with that. I think I'll just use kwin with KDE