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forcedtopicksomething

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Registered: 2023-07-26

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Three questions about xfce4-docklike-plugin

Because of the many problems with "Window Buttons", I've been forced to start using the xfce4-docklike-plugin. It's pretty neat but also has some really annoying flaws. I've carefully looked through all settings and read the manual before asking.

1. When you have more than one of some program open, and they group into a list, those list items get a little "X" in the right part of them to close them individually. The middle mouse button doesn't close them. Is there some way to make this happen (and preferably hide the "X" buttons)? I know that you can set it to kill *all* the instances by middle-clicking the icon itself, but that's rarely what I want to do. I just want to quickly close some of them individually.

2. For the default "Window Buttons" thing, I was able to increase the horizontal width of the items that pop up when you click a group by adding this CSS code to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:

.tasklist { -XfceTasklist-menu-max-width-chars: 128; }

However, I cannot figure out how to do the same for this xfce4-docklike-plugin's list items. I've read https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfc … rt#theming but I don't get what it wants me to change. I tried all kinds of things but nothing seemed to change those list items at all. How is it done? And why do they always make them so unnecessarily narrow by default?

3. I discovered that it does allow you to rearrange items, by holding down the Ctrl button, then clicking on one item and dragging it around freely. There is no setting to make it so that you don't have to hold down Ctrl. Can this be achieved somehow still? Or could it be implemented? I don't understand why the author(s) did it that way, because it's not intuitive and requires two hands, preventing "casual" rearranging.

Please note that I cannot file any bugs or create any issues because they demand a GitHub/GitLab account and those sites (like every other major service since 10+ years) consistently rejects every attempt I've ever made to create an account. Hopefully the author reads this, although as I understand it the Debian 13 package will not be updated until Debian 14 in about two years, even if they release an updated version...

Last edited by forcedtopicksomething (2025-08-28 01:51:11)