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From: alexd on 12 May 2010 17:32 Having a menu bar across the entire width of the screen wasting valuable vertical pixels, I decided to shift it to the left edge, where there's plenty of pixels to spare. It took some bludgeoning, but I've ended up with this: http://ale.cx/alex/leftbar2.png http://ale.cx/alex/leftbar3.png Basically, three panels. Two are narrow, and have the default visibility settings [top and bottom panels]. One is much wider, and has the 'Windows can cover' option set [the middle panel]. The middle panel has the Task Manager on, and the row settings were tweaked to show a single column of applications. This means I can see an icon for every window on the current desktop, and if need be I can move the mouse over the middle panel to find an application by name. -- <http://ale.cx/> (AIM:troffasky) (UnSoEsNpEaTm(a)ale.cx) 22:19:25 up 14 days, 21:58, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.50, 0.46 It is better to have been wasted and then sober than to never have been wasted at all
From: Folderol on 12 May 2010 17:49 On Wed, 12 May 2010 22:32:04 +0100 alexd <troffasky(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Having a menu bar across the entire width of the screen wasting valuable > vertical pixels, I decided to shift it to the left edge, where there's > plenty of pixels to spare. It took some bludgeoning, but I've ended up > with this: > > http://ale.cx/alex/leftbar2.png > http://ale.cx/alex/leftbar3.png > > Basically, three panels. Two are narrow, and have the default visibility > settings [top and bottom panels]. One is much wider, and has the > 'Windows can cover' option set [the middle panel]. The middle panel has > the Task Manager on, and the row settings were tweaked to show a single > column of applications. This means I can see an icon for every window on > the current desktop, and if need be I can move the mouse over the middle > panel to find an application by name. > On my netbook I simply moved the top panel to the left and the bottom one to the right, and widened both of them. Full vertical room now, and the layout looks a lot more sensible :) -- Will J G
From: Martin Gregorie on 12 May 2010 20:08 On Wed, 12 May 2010 22:49:00 +0100, Folderol wrote: > On my netbook I simply moved the top panel to the left and the bottom > one to the right, and widened both of them. Full vertical room now, and > the layout looks a lot more sensible :) > I like a single bottom menu, so my first action on logging in to a recently created user is to move everything I need from the top menu to the bottom menu. Then I delete the top menu. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
From: Tony Houghton on 13 May 2010 09:44 In <hsfftg$cs9$1(a)localhost.localdomain>, Martin Gregorie <martin(a)address-in-sig.invalid> wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 2010 22:49:00 +0100, Folderol wrote: > >> On my netbook I simply moved the top panel to the left and the bottom >> one to the right, and widened both of them. Full vertical room now, and >> the layout looks a lot more sensible :) >> > > I like a single bottom menu, so my first action on logging in to a > recently created user is to move everything I need from the top menu to > the bottom menu. Then I delete the top menu. The bottom bar usually has less on it IME, or at least less that I want to keep, so I find it quicker to move everything from the bottom to the top, delete the bottom one and move the top one down. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk
From: Tony Houghton on 13 May 2010 09:48
In <hsf6oh$s3v$1(a)speranza.aioe.org>, alexd <troffasky(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Having a menu bar across the entire width of the screen wasting valuable > vertical pixels, I decided to shift it to the left edge, where there's > plenty of pixels to spare. It took some bludgeoning, but I've ended up > with this: > > http://ale.cx/alex/leftbar2.png > http://ale.cx/alex/leftbar3.png > > Basically, three panels. Two are narrow, and have the default visibility > settings [top and bottom panels]. One is much wider, and has the > 'Windows can cover' option set [the middle panel]. The middle panel has > the Task Manager on, and the row settings were tweaked to show a single > column of applications. This means I can see an icon for every window on > the current desktop, and if need be I can move the mouse over the middle > panel to find an application by name. I like that. But is it KDE or GNOME? I'm not sure if you can restrict GNOME panels to one of the ends or the middle like that. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |