How to minimise apps to dock.

RaamizHussain · 2016-04-04 14:22:57

Hi, I was wondering if I could minimise and reopen apps by clicking their item on the dock. And reopen them by clicking on their icon. Like the Mac OS dock.
Thank You
Raamiz Hussain

Jerry3904 · 2016-04-04 14:37:56

That works for me in Xfce 4.12.

Did you try it and not have success?

RaamizHussain · 2016-04-04 14:50:08

I'm on 4.10. I use Debian Stable.

Jerry3904 · 2016-04-04 15:14:51

4.12 has that capacity so I guess you would need to upgrade Xfce to be able to do that. People on Debian Stable (but not any of the 'buntus) have been using our repo to carry out that upgrade with success:

deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mx/repo/ mx15 main non-free

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sixsixfive · 2016-04-04 16:12:18

Which Dock? Xfce doesn't have a dock it has a taskbar(in which you can hide the labels but it is still no dock)

bobwad · 2016-04-04 17:28:23

Are we talking about the system tray here?

If so, those applications which do not have a built-in system tray option can be launched using alltray.

(Sorry, don't use Mac, so I am probably off beam.)

Jerry3904 · 2016-04-04 18:13:12

sixsixfive wrote:

Which Dock? Xfce doesn't have a dock it has a taskbar(in which you can hide the labels but it is still no dock)

Yeah, that's good. I assumed OP meant "panel" and never looked back.

RaamizHussain · 2016-04-04 21:59:56

When I say dock I mean the row of icons at the bottom of the screen. Highlighted in red in this picture <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4HpDX … sp=sharing>

MountainDewManiac · 2016-04-04 22:09:07

RaamizHussain wrote:

When I say dock I mean the row of icons at the bottom of the screen. Highlighted in red in this picture <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4HpDX … sp=sharing>

All I saw was a "Whoops! There was a problem displaying this image" notice. Maybe the ability to display images from that website depends on one's willingness to allow Google's scripts to run on one's computer (which I do not, because I've got just a wee bit of sense, lol, and allow my script-blocker to stop such invasions before they occur). Could you post it on a more neutral website, such as ZimageZ? That one is integrated into Xfce's screenshot application, so it ought to be pretty easy to do.

BtW, do you mean the Window Buttons panel applet? It's kind of hard to guess by your description.

Regards,
MDM

RaamizHussain · 2016-04-04 22:11:51

MountainDewManiac · 2016-04-04 22:19:30

Thank you. That DOES look like some sort of dock application. As has been stated, Xfce doesn't come with a dock app, so that must have been either installed by you or added by the developer of your distro. What is its name?

Regards,
MDM

RaamizHussain · 2016-04-04 22:25:12

I use Debian stable. And that's been there since I've installed it. I always see it when I install XFCE, although I've only ever installed XFCE on debian based distros.

ToZ · 2016-04-04 23:22:11

I believe that is xfce4-panel - configured to look like a dock with a number of launchers on it.

Unfortunately, xfce4-panel doesn't have the functionality that the @OP is looking for. In which case, there are 2 options:

Use a dock application (like plank, to name one of a few).
Create a launcher helper script that programmatically does the work. Such a script was discussed and developed on this thread (the final version in the second to last post).

Jerry3904 · 2016-04-04 23:44:14

ToZ wrote:

Unfortunately, xfce4-panel doesn't have the functionality that the @OP is looking for

That is interesting, and a bit confusing, since that works just fine for us: I click on the panel icon, the window collapses; I click on the icon again, and the collapsed window reopens.

ToZ · 2016-04-05 00:21:38

Jerry3904 wrote:

ToZ wrote:
Unfortunately, xfce4-panel doesn't have the functionality that the @OP is looking for
That is interesting, and a bit confusing, since that works just fine for us: I click on the panel icon, the window collapses; I click on the icon again, and the collapsed window reopens.

That's the window buttons plugin that does that. But it only shows open windows. The launchers on the panel only show those launchers that you've added, not necessarily those that already running. You could use both launchers and the window buttons plugin, but unlike a dock program like plank, you can't combine both features into one plugin (which is what I gathered that the @OP is asking about).

Jerry3904 · 2016-04-05 10:51:13

Got it.

RaamizHussain · 2016-04-05 16:04:36

I ended up installing docky. It does have the minimising and reopening feature and a lot more customisation. Thanks to all who helped!

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