Gnome replaces Unity

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 23:22:17 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>That's called a deskbar.
>
>It's the combined top and bottom panels, but on the left instead.
>[snip]
>
>The snag is that neither GNOME 2 not Maté nor Cinnamon (nor KDE,
>LXDE/LXQt or Enlightenment or any other Linux desktop I know) can do
>this. Xfce can with ease, though. So I use Xfce now and in time I will
>probably switch to Xubuntu.  

That's wrong.

It's just a side panel and you could achieve the same with most, if
not all panels, let alone that you could replace a DE's own panel by
xfce4-panel.

I'm using a top panel, resp. on top I'm using 2 panels, fbpanel on the
left and lxpanel on the right. Instead of the top position from left to
right, I also could place them at the left from top to bottom.

I'm using the window manager openbox without a desktop environment.
Among several panels, I've got also xfce4-panel installed, so I could
use it, but it would gain me nothing.

IMO a side panel is wasting more space, however, where ever a panel is
positioned, at a common modern screen size of 1920x1080 the minimal
"lost" space shouldn't matter at all.

Usually I'm using only one screen, but take a look at the screenshot
[1], it's a dual-head screenshot showing the 1920x1080 LCD I always use
and my old CRT at 1152x864. That should be enough space for most work,
if you e.g. select to display some windows always on top. FWIW I want a
panel only on one screen, but I'm not aware of any issue to position
panels on two or more screens.

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