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Osbios

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Registered: 2011-10-23

Posts: 5

[Solved] starter icons in two rows to save space?

Hi!

I'm really happy with Xfce except one single problem. And I hope you can help me to solve it.

If I increase the height of my panel, so I can get a taskbar that can hold two lines of application entries all my starter icons get very fat and eat a lot of the horizontal space of my panel.

I know I could use a single button that keeps all this starters in a menu. But I would prefer a "one click to start" solution.

Is there a way to get the starters arranged in two rows like the taskbar does it? Maybe some plugin?

Last edited by Osbios (2011-10-23 08:31:27)

Osbios

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Registered: 2011-10-23

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved] starter icons in two rows to save space?

To answer myself, so people that have the same question may find this:

For unrelated reasons I installed a "newer" version of xubuntu(LTS), and also got a "newer" xfce version(4.6.1).
This one actually comes with a plugin called Quicklauncher. And it does exactly what I looked for.

azertyh

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From: dago

Registered: 2010-07-13

Posts: 16

Re: [Solved] starter icons in two rows to save space?

hello,
interesting. and thanks for the info about quicklauncher.
and the latest version of xfce is 4.8 and not 4.6.

Osbios

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Registered: 2011-10-23

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved] starter icons in two rows to save space?

Well, I wrote "newer" and not newer to make that visible.

The quicklauncher plugin comes at last with the version 4.6.1 or later. That's basically the Information.