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Using an auto-hiding deskbar gives you access to your full screen. It displays only when you run the cursor to the left side of the screen.

OKie wrote: Mon Nov 02, 2020 12:35 pm
This is supposed to be a screenshots area. I was kind of hoping to see what I'm missing.

If you browse the screenshots sub-boards for MX17, 18 and 19, you'll find some.

I use a vertical panel/dock in Neon (Plasma), Fedora (Gnome, Dash-to-Dock shell extension). And Solus (Budgie) on my laptop.

On the other hand, I use a horizontal panel/dock in Manjaro XFCE, MX-KDE, Sabayon (Plasma) and Solus (Budgie) on my PC.

In all my MX XFCE installs, I use a fixed vertical panel and a short horizontal panel that autohides (like a dock).

Here's one of my screenshots from the "MX19 screenshots" sub-forum.

viewtopic.php?p=536187#p536187

I just like to use different layouts and desktop environments.

My panel is minimal, if you discount the 3 weather icons. Any additions would be redundant. I've deleted the default launchers - I launch almost everything using the keyboard. It's much faster for applications I use frequently - 3 or 4 keystrokes are usually enough. I could delete the Orage clock - I never look at it. I have the default conky top right of the desktop and it's almost always visible on all my desktops. I don't have anything on my desktops, except the Manual & FAQ icons - they are almost always visible, too.

It's in complete contrast to my physical desktop, which has heaps of paper, notebooks, ruler, stapler, calculator, an empty box, a set of Ernie Ball guitar strings and a calendar memo pad buried under it all, where it's absolutely useless and never used!

Wide screen monitor and I have two horizontal panels, bottom and top. It still gives me plenty of vertical space. I current am using MX KDE and have many widgets in the panels. A vertical panel would not hold all of them easily. Having said that it is a matter of how one uses their computer and visual taste. so I get the vertical panel as a choice for some users.

I was expecting a response to this question in about a week.

I'll have to play around with the auto-hiding & number of rows for vertical. Maybe that makes it work.

After a quick search, I realized xfce-panel-profiles wasn't installed. Unfortunately, it looks like exporting panel configs is broken. It would make a great way of sharing setups, assuming it doesn't leak personal information.

Is not xfce but Fluxbox, and also not the xfce panel, but Tint2 (which could also be installed under xfce) but with xfce it looked like this for me (although Tint2 can be configured in more ways)
For example, I don't like icons on the desktop :-)
The picture was for a different problem/theme, the docks and taskbar are normally invisible and here only visible for demonstration purposes.

Unfortunately, it looks like exporting panel configs is broken.

That app may be broken, but MX Tweak gives you the chance of backing up a panel config, so you can use Tweak to back up on one machine (to ~/restore/config/...), move the file and restore it on another.

I use it in Deskbar mode. I also usually throw in a dock at the bottom, or another panel.

I've been running a vertical standard XFCE panel for a while now, and like it quite a bit (especially on my widescreens). To get the placement I have, it's actually two panels. The top one is only for window buttons. The bottom panel is limited to the bottom 60% of the screeen or so, as a way to keep my date/time near the middle. I also have the panel backgrounds set to be transparent, so they're just floating icons and text.

Hi!

As with most things in Linux we're spoiled for choices and there is really no right or wrong way...

I'm a dock person but I find XFCE4 more than able to do it adequately without any need for an external dock app, Deskbars seem awkward to me but that's just an opinion, if I were forced to use one for a day I'm sure I could adapt..