Re: Toggle iconify state on click on task name in panel's task list?

[Anders Carlsson <andersca gnu org>]

"Paris, Eloy (E.)" wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> It's sad to admit it but Windows 98 has a feature I'd like to have in my
> Gnome desktop: the ability to toggle the iconify state of a window when the
> user clicks on the the name of the task in the panel's task list. This would
> be really really nice to have!!!
> 
> I have looked around the current configuration dialogs and haven't seen
> anything to configure this behavior so I suspect it's not there yet. I know
> that I can right-click on the task name and then choose from several options
> (like iconify, kill, etc.) in the menu that pops up, but this is not as nice
> as just being able to single-click and have the iconify state toggled.
> 
> Would it be too hard to hack the tasklist_applet to do this?
> 
> I already found a way of having Sawfish minimize all my windows with a
> single click or keystroke. If I find a way of having this new feature it
> would be just _perfect_ :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eloy.-
> 

Hello,

this seems to be a bug in sawfish. The tasklist has this feature
implemented, so if you click on the tasklist on a task that is focused,
that task will be iconified. However, the problem is that sawfish
doesn't seem to care about the "do-not-focus" that the panel sets.
Therefore, when you click on the tasklist, the panel will be focused
first which means that the focused window will lose focus.

There's a way around this. Select the "Matched Windows" entry in the
Customize menu in sawfish. Then, press add and then enter "panel" as the
name, and select never-focus. Then restart the panel and it should work.

//andersca
andersca@gnu.org