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inner200k

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Registered: 2025-11-19

Posts: 1

"Window Buttons" Panel (filter / remove)

Hi,
I've been looking for a way to exclude an application from appearing on the windows buttons panel, if this something can be either;

a) done by my application
b) done by an external application to a window.
c) some other method.

or

Will I have to compile my own Xfce4 "Window Buttons" writing the feature myself?

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,355

Re: "Window Buttons" Panel (filter / remove)

Hello and welcome.

You could use xdotool:

xdotool getactivewindow windowstate --add SKIP_TASKBAR

...add this command to a keyboard shortcut and press the shortcut to remove the currently active/focused window from the taskbar.

If you want to automate it, you could use an application like devilspie (or devilspie2) that sits in the background monitoring window events and when a certain event happens (e.g. a specific application opens), it initiates an action (like removing it from the taskbar).

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