This section changes the settings of the taskbar. Changes affect the external taskbar and also taskbar applets on Kicker or child-panels.
If this box is checked, the taskbar will show all running apps of every desktop. Otherwise, only the applications of the current desktop are shown.
Checking this box will sort all in a group for each desktop, otherwise they are sorted by the order they are started. This will not affect grouped tasks if they are spread over more than one desktop.
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If this box is checked, only windows which have been minimized will be shown in the taskbar. If Show windows from all desktops has been checked then all minimized windows will be shown. Otherwise, only the minimized windows of the current virtual desktop will be shown.
If this box is checked, every will have the icon of the running application beside its title.
Checking this box will show the small .
This is an option which helps you if you often lack space in your taskbar. If it is set to Always, several instances of the same application are grouped together in one taskbar button. Select When Taskbar Full to make Kicker only group similar tasks if there is not much space left in the taskbar.
You can define the mouse actions of the taskbar buttons with the settings in the Actions frame. Each action can be one of the following:
Clicking with the mouse button will open a menu displaying all tasks in that group. If you click an entry of that menu with any mouse button, the corresponding application will become active.
Clicking with the mousebutton will open a menu with all applications of that group, where every application has its window menu as a submenu and there are some group specific entries like which closes all applications of that group, which lets you define on which desktop the whole group appears and , and which appends those actions to all applications of that group.
If this action is chosen, each click with the mousebutton on the will activate one of that group's applications, one after each others.
Activate Task: Clicking with the mousebutton will activate the first application in that group without opening the group menu.
The first application of that group will be put in the foreground without giving focus to it.
The first application of that group will be put in the background. It won't lose the focus.
The first application of that group will be minimized. If it is already minimized, it will be restored again.
Please note that some of these settings only have effect if a taskbar button contains more than one application.
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