Properties - Display

The first Properties window, shown in Figure 3, allows you to control Desk Guide applet's display.

Options include:

• Switch tasklist arrow — switches the side of the applet on which the arrow used to launch the tasklist window is displayed.

• Only show current desktop in pager — limits the applet display to the desktop currently in use, including all its viewports.

• Raise area grid over tasks — If you use multiple viewports (not only multiple desktops) with your window manager, Desk Guide draws a viewport grid in the current desktop. It can either draw the grid on top of the windows or below them.

• Show Desk-Guide tooltips — Display tooltips related to various Desk Guide applet components. The arrow is the only widget that displays a tooltip.

• Desk-Guide tooltip delay [ms] — delay, in milliseconds, before the tooltip is displayed. You may either type in a number or use the arrows to change the number.

• Show desktop name tooltips — Some window managers, such as Enlightenment, allow you to name your desktops. The feature directs Deskguide to show tooltips displaying the desktop's name.

• Desktop name tooltip delay [ms] — delay, in milliseconds, before the tooltip is displayed. You may either type in a number or use the arrows to change the number.

Properties - Tasks

Options include:

• Show hidden tasks (HIDDEN), Show shaded tasks (SHADED), Show tasks which hide from window list (SKIP-WINLIST), Show tasks which hide from taskbar (SKIP-TASKBAR) — These four items allow Deskguide to display applications running with flags set that would normally hide them from an application like this. For instance the panel is flagged as HIDDEN, HIDE_FROM_WINLIST and HIDE_FROM_TASKBAR. Selecting these options will allow Deskguide to show such applications.

Properties - Geometry

Options include:

• Desktop Height [pixels] — sets the height of the desktop. By default this is greyed out, and the panel size automatically sets the desktop height. To activate it uncheck the Override desktop height with panel size checkbox.

• Override desktop height with panel size — forces Desk Guide to automatically size itself to the panel. Unchecking this allows you to manually set the height using the Desktop Height setting above.

• Divide height by number of vertical areas — divide the total applet height by the number of rows of desktop areas visible.

• Rows of desktops — set the number of rows of desktop maps Desk Guide creates in the panel to represent your desktops.

  Your window manager, not Desk Guide Applet, controls the number of desktops available on your computer. This feature only controls the way Desk Guide applet displays them.

• Divide height by number of rows — forces Desk Guide to fit all the rows of desktops into the height specified above (either one you have manually specified or one set automatically to match the height of the panel). Unchecking this, if you have more than one row, allows Desk Guide to expand vertically to two or more times normal height.

The options for Vertical Layout are mirror those for horizontal layout above, but effect the width instead of height of the applet, and the number of columns it occupies instead of the number of rows.

Properties - Advanced

Advanced options allow you to control Desk Guide's behavior with specific window managers, along with other settings.

• Draw desktops double-buffered (recommended) — controls the method Desk Guide draws desktops. Without double-buffering, you may see flicker on slower machines. With it, you may see slower performance on network connections.

• Window manager moves decoration window instead — Check this if, when you move a window with the middle mouse button, but the resulting window position is off. If in doubt, check this if you use any of the window managers mentioned (AfterStep, Enlightenment, FVWM, IceWM, or Sawmill, now known as Sawfish).

• Window manager changes active area on all desktops — If you have more than one desktop, with multiple work areas within each desktop, this option can be used to force the window manager to change the active work area within all the desktops simultaneously if you change your work area on one.

• Window manager expects pager to modify area+desktop — Currently has no effect.

• Popdown task view automatically — Automatically pops down the task view window after you click on an application in the task view list. If unchecked, you must click a second time on the task view arrow to get the window to pop down.

More Information

All Properties dialogs have the following buttons at the bottom of the dialog:

• OK — Pressing OK will activate any changes in the properties you have made and close the Properties dialog.

• Apply — Pressing Apply at any time will make your changes active without closing the Properties dialog. This is helpful if you would like to test the effects of the changes you have made but may want to continue changing the properties.

• Close — Pressing Close will close the Properties dialog. Only changes in the configuration which were previously applied with the Apply button will persist. Other changes will not be made active.

• Help — Pressing Help brings up the manual for the application, opening it to the page describing the Properties dialog.

Standard Pop-Up Items

All applets should have the following items in their right-click pop-up menu: