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NX Hades
May 29th, 2011, 07:09 PM
Hello everyone,

I'm a standard linux junkie, kinda self educated in the school of knocks. I should make an intro thread in the general subforum.

Anyhow, both windows 7 and OSX have a certain default something that I really want and don't have in ubuntu. When you hover your mouse over an application in the windows taskbar or the OSX dock, you get a nifty lil list of how many windows are open, or what is running.

Is there a docky setting where I can mouse hover or do anything but right click (netbook trackpad is not very forgiving) and see how many instances of something is open?
Barring that, another dock application that supports this?
ghostborg
May 29th, 2011, 08:56 PM
cairo dock shows another icon next to the original icon with a white dot.

I have Docky on another machine, not in front of me right now.

What I do is have both installed, Docky and Cairo and just select the one I wish to use in the Startup Applications until I figure out which one suits me best.
NX Hades
May 29th, 2011, 10:57 PM
cairo dock shows another icon next to the original icon with a white dot.

I have Docky on another machine, not in front of me right now.

What I do is have both installed, Docky and Cairo and just select the one I wish to use in the Startup Applications until I figure out which one suits me best.

I'll give it a shot on my desktop. Docky is just cool for me because I frequently use OSX at work and a little bit of uniformity helps out everyone I work with (hehe, installed linux on most of their windows boxes).

I'm really curious about how much docky and several docklets slow down my newbook compared to the standard task panel. HD video stutters a little bit, and the cpu monitor docklet indicated 95-99% cpu usage.

Is cairo at all lighter weight?
karmila
May 29th, 2011, 11:28 PM
Maybe you also want to try DockbarX (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/DockbarX?content=101604).

It can be used as gnome-panel applet, or if you like dock you can use it as awn applet.
Krytarik
May 30th, 2011, 12:24 AM
Maybe you also want to try DockbarX (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/DockbarX?content=101604).
or if you like dock you can use it as awn applet.
Yeah, like described in this guide:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1714111

Or you can just use AWN's default window selector, but that requires one left-click.

Greetings.