Re: Iconify instead of minimize

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

It's very likely that you will also have to tell Nautilus
not to draw the desktop, since the window manager will need
to manage the desktop itself.  Set the gconf key

/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop

to false.

--
Shaun

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 07:11 -0500, Diego Escalante wrote:
> I think that if you use another window manager you can have this
> behavior (read: use xfwm instead of metacity). Remember that metacity
> is just a part of gnome and you can cleanly replace it for something
> else.
> 
> On 3/19/07, Jonte <jonatan p gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello, I'm running GNOME 2.18, packaged with Ubuntu Feisty H5.
> > I'd like to change the default behavior when pressing the minimize button on
> > a window. As it is now, the window hides in my task bar (usual behavior).
> > Instead of having the window in my task bar (I'm trying to eliminate the
> > need of having a task bar at all) I'd like for the window to place itself as
> > an icon on my desktop.
> > XFCE4.4 has this behavior, and I believe Windowmaker, as well as TWM do as
> > well, I hope you know what I mean.
> > Is it possible to accomplish this?
> >
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