No more taskbar with Ubuntu

[nuncio.bitis]

When I minimize a window with the new look & feel, the window is lost. I have to open a new application for the window. Is this supposed to happen? I thought minimize was supposed to put the program on a taskbar at the bottom of the screen?
I've been trying to get this functionality working again with both Unity and Gnome. Both GUIs have lost the bottom taskbar.

[indianajo]

I asked this question two hours ago. At least you know the name of the function. Apparently everybody who counts knows and is bored with it.

[Krytarik]

Apparently everybody who counts knows and is bored with it.
Yeah, you may be right. :P Here is one recent thread reg. that:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1923013

Hope that helps.

[nuncio.bitis]

OK - Alt-Tab or Ctl-W
Whatever happened to a taskbar or launcher at the botton of the screen? I can't imagine someone taking away that kind of functionality on purpose!
You may as well just require people to open a terminal window and type "ps -ef" to show what windows might be running!

[Frogs Hair]

Open applications have an indicator on the launcher panel in Unity . The window menu and taskbar are gone unless you are using Ubuntu Classic in 11.04 or Gnome Classic in 11.10 . The Gnome Shell has no taskbar either but can be added with an extension .

[nuncio.bitis]

Where's the launcher panel? If you mean the top of the screen, there's only an infinity symbol there. Otherwise there's just icons on the desktop.

[Frogs Hair]

The link may help with using Unity . http://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/the-complete-guide-to-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot-review/

[nuncio.bitis]

So how do you get a taskbar for gnome? What's it called? I seem to already have a gnome-panel running, although I can't find it using 'ps -ef'
If I try and start it, it says "there's seems to be one running already" and doesn't do anything.

[nuncio.bitis]

I just found cairo-dock for gnome.
It's brilliant.