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fdelente

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Registered: 2012-12-30

Posts: 19

Maximizing a window overlaps gkrellm and xfce4-panel

Hello.

I use gkrellm as a system status monitor; when I used sawfish, it was configured so that when maximizing windows gkrellm wouldn't disappear under them, by reserving a blank column on the right side of the desktop, of about 48 pixels, when windows didn't go when maximized.

However I can't replicate this behavior with xfwm4: maximized windows take up all the screen, even the space where xfce4-panel is.

I tried creating rules with devilspie2 to declare gkrellm as a dock, so that it would be avoided when maximizing, but it doesn't work.

Is there a way to get the behavior I want?

Thanks.

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ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,588

Re: Maximizing a window overlaps gkrellm and xfce4-panel

Try Settings Manager -> Workspaces -> Margins tab.

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fdelente

Member

Registered: 2012-12-30

Posts: 19

Re: Maximizing a window overlaps gkrellm and xfce4-panel

Works, even though I find it disturbing to have to manually decide which space to leave around. Normally X roles are there for that, aren't they? Does xfwm4 respects them?