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I have a dual monitor setup, and my taskbar gets rather busy. Is there any way to prevent a program from appearing on the taskbar when it is started, or remove it after it is running? At least, could one have it appear in the system tray instead?

 

 

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Have you considered using Multiple Desktops in KDE?

 

kcontrol -> LookNFeel -> Multiple Desktops

 

Then, in LookNFeel -> Taskbar, make sure the Show Windows from All Desktops checkbox is unchecked.

 

Now you have several virtual desktops (whatever number you chose) and the taskbar will show only the apps opened in that Desktop.

 

Switching to a different Desktop is only a click away.

 

See the KDE Help Center for more info.

 

If you use Gnome, maybe there's something similar, I dunno as I don't use it.

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Well, I do use multiple desktops too, but my taskbar still gets quite busy just with the items I have on the visible screens. For example, gaim. It is always visible. There is not really any need for it to have an entry on the taskbar. Plus there are a couple of other applications that are always up. One can still always get to the application by doing an alt-tab, even if it were minimized. it would be nice if there were an optional way to prevent the appearance of an item on the taskbar.

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There is a way but I've forgotten the name - I saw it mentioned somewhere in this forum a couple of months ago and thought "hey, that's cool, I should remember that", but I can't find it again now :/

Basically it was a separate program that was used to launch other programs - and you could give it parameters to say whether you wanted an entry in the task bar or not.

The example shown somewhere in this forum was gkrellm, as a response to a screen grab. I tried it at the time and it did indeed work. I was hoping that someone with a better memory than me would answer your question, but maybe the mention of gkrellm will stimulate someone's grey cells??

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