[NTLUG:Discuss] Viewing Applications from all workspaces on the taskbar - in Gnome

[Ralph Green]

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 21:12 -0600, David Simmons wrote:
> this in Gnome is a bit tricky.  What you'll need to do
> is click on the little bevel area to the left of any open windows (on the
> taskbar).  What you're hoping to have pop-up is a window called
> 'Window List Preferences'.  Within this area - click on 'Show Windows
> from all workspaces' rather than the default 'Show windows from current
> workspace'.  Then click close....and wa-la!
> 
  Dave,
  The default on most recent distros is the annoying way you suggest
here.  It really clutters up the task bar.  Which way the default is set
is really up to whomever rolls the distro.
  KDE is almost always set wrong like this.  I always have to fix KDE to
let it show a useful taskbar.

> HTH - dave
> 
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