This section changes the settings of the taskbar. Changes affect the external taskbar and also taskbar applets on Kicker or child-panels. The taskbar can be located in the panel (default), or outside the panel on the desktop.
This option determines whether all open windows are included in the taskbar or not. By default, the taskbar only shows the open windows on the current desktop. If this option is enabled, the taskbar will show all open windows on all desktops.
This option changes the sort order of the icons on the taskbar, so that windows on virtual desktop 1 are shown first (to the left, or at the top of the taskbar), followed by windows on virtual desktop 2, and so on.
This options shows the icons in an alphabetical sort order on the taskbar.
When selected the order of the taskbar buttons can be rearranged simply by selecting the button with the mouse pointer and dragging to the desired location.
This option allows cycling or switching through all apps in the taskbar by moving the mouse scrool wheel while the mouse pointer hovers over the taskbar.
If this box is checked, only windows which have been minimized will be shown in the taskbar. If Show windows from all desktops has been checked then all minimized windows will be shown. Otherwise, only the minimized windows of the current virtual desktop will be shown.
Checking this box will show the small at the fat left of the taskbar. This button opens a popup menu listing all applications in the taskbar.
This option affects how taskbar buttons are displayed. The drop-down list button supports three options: Icons and Text, Text only, and Icons only.
This is option helps you if you often lack space in your taskbar. If it is set to Always, several instances of the same application are grouped together in one taskbar button. Select When Taskbar Full to make Kicker only group similar tasks if there is not much space left in the taskbar.
This option allows you to set the taskbar appearance to Elegant, Classic or For Transparency.
This option allows you to choose different colors for the taskbar buttons.
The next set of options allow you to customize the actions performed with different mouse clicks on taskbar icons.
You can select any action from the list for the Left button, the Middle button and the Right button.
Some of these settings have effect only when a taskbar button contains more than one application.
Clicking with the mouse button will open a menu displaying all tasks in that group. If you click an entry of that menu with any mouse button, the corresponding application will become active.
Clicking with the mousebutton will open a menu with all applications of that group, where every application has its window menu as a submenu and there are some group specific entries like which closes all applications of that group, which lets you define on which desktop the whole group appears and , and which appends those actions to all applications of that group.
When a task is minimized, this option activates and raises the task to focus. When open in the background but not visibile, this option raises the task to focus.
Clicking with the mousebutton will activate the first application in that group without opening the group menu.
The first application of that group will be put in the foreground without giving focus to it.
The first application of that group will be put in the background. It won't lose the focus.
The first application of that group will be minimized. If it is already minimized, it will be restored again.
When the taskbar is configured to show all apps from all desktops, this options will move the selected app from a different desktop to the current desktop.
This option closes or terminates the task.
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