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xfceusersince2014

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Registered: 2023-08-12

Posts: 7

please remind me how to...

...make the panel display an application on only the application's current desktop. I haven't had to change that setting in so long, I forgot how. I currently have applications from desktop 2 displaying on the panel on desktop 1, etc.

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peter.48

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From: France, sud-ouest

Registered: 2017-01-31

Posts: 151

Re: please remind me how to...

this is in properties of window buttons (panel elements)
last checkbox in "filters": "show windows from all monitors".

xfceusersince2014

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Registered: 2023-08-12

Posts: 7

Re: please remind me how to...

this is in properties of window buttons (panel elements)
last checkbox in "filters": "show windows from all monitors".

Sorry, how do I get to panel elements?

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peter.48

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From: France, sud-ouest

Registered: 2017-01-31

Posts: 151

Re: please remind me how to...

In "panel properties" of course, third tab "elements".

xfceusersince2014

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Registered: 2023-08-12

Posts: 7

Re: please remind me how to...

? Ehh, perhaps we have different version of XFCE, or something. Mine doesn't have "panel properties" with the third tab being elements. Mine has panel preferences; and in that the third tab is Items, not Elements.

I can't figure out how to attach a screenshot of my About XFCE. But it gives the following possibly pertinent information:
XFCE Version: 4.18
GTK Version: 3.24.24
Kernel Version: 5.10.0.24-amd64
Distro: Debian bullseye

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"O, what man may within him hide, / Though angel on the outward side!" --Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

CwF

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Registered: 2018-01-28

Posts: 305

Re: please remind me how to...

from a right click somewhere on the panel, select 'Panel'>>'Panel Preferences'
Now in the Panel Preferences window, from   Select 'Items' Tab from Display /  Appearance / Items
Select/highlight 'Window Buttons'
Click 'Edit the currently selected item'
There it is, same in 4.18 since forever

peter.48

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From: France, sud-ouest

Registered: 2017-01-31

Posts: 151

Re: please remind me how to...

I am using xfce in spanish, I have written "elements" because I don't know how it is called in english version...

xfceusersince2014

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Registered: 2023-08-12

Posts: 7

Re: please remind me how to...

Select/highlight 'Window Buttons'
Click 'Edit the currently selected item'
There it is, same in 4.18 since forever

Eventually, I figured out myself that "Window Buttons" is a removable element on the items list, which I had mistakenly removed at some point and needed to re-add; and that was why I didn't see what you were talking about. You could have specified that Window Buttons must have been added to the items list, instead of getting snotty. This is why I distrust other Linux users and, more generally, strangers online.

This part had nothing to do with you: the real solution to my problem wasn't even there, probably because in ignorance I gave the wrong impression of the problem. The issue wasn't with the Window Buttons, it was with the "Docklike Taskbar." Looking in its settings, I found that one needs to have "only show applications for the current workspace" checked.

Last edited by xfceusersince2014 (2023-08-17 22:10:52)

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