Gkrellm and show desktop button

[kerryhall]

Hey all!

I would like to configure the "show desktop" button somehow so that it doesn't minimize gkrellm (or possibly some other apps)

Is this possible? I was thinking that i could find the script for show desktop, and have it grep for certain process names, and not minimize those.

Thanks!

[kerryhall]

bump

[pauper]

The starting point is apparently here:

gedit $HOME/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/show_desktop_button_screen0/%gconf.xml

[kerryhall]

bump

[kerryhall]

Bump.

[kerryhall]

Bump.

[gtr225]

I was thinking that would be great if Gkrellm would stay on the desktop no matter what.

[kerryhall]

Agreed. Now how do we do that? Bump.

[Mark76]

Set it to be a dock or panel in Configuration/General/Properties

[gtr225]

I've tried that and it does nothing

[Mark76]

Worked for me.

[kerryhall]

Awesome, that worked! I think the problem I was having is that gkrellm has to be restarted for that setting to take effect! I was expecting the changes to take place immediately. Thank you for the help! :)

Edit: Now the problem is that when another window is maximized, gkrellm takes up permanent space on the right side of the screen. It would be nice if that didn't happen, but that would be a gkrellm feature request I would imagine.

[gtr225]

Yes that's my problem now, I want it stuck to the desktop but not on top of other windows or reserving it's own space on the side.

[Mark76]

What DE are you using? Maybe there's an option in configuration that'll allow you to override this behaviour.

[gtr225]

Gnome

[Mark76]

I got nothing.

I use ROX Desktop and Openbox and I don't know what I did, but I'm having no problem with GKrellm taking up space at the side.

[kerryhall]

Looks like I should bump this then.