SUSE 11.2 Tweak – Show all tasks on Gnome Panel
The Gnome desktop in OpenSUSE 11.2 is beautiful (much nicer than the clunky KDE IMHO), but there are a few things that I don’t like about the default settings. I use 8 virtual desktops to keep my desktop organized but I like the taskbar to show all tasks. By default, the gnome panel’s task bar shows only the windows in the current workspace and for some reason you can’t just right-click the panel to change this setting.
Instead, it’s buried in the Gnome Configuration Editor which makes it really hard to find so here are the steps to fix this:
1) Computer -> More Applications
2) System -> Gnome Configuration Editor
The setting that needs to be changed is:
3) /apps/panel/applets/window_list_screen0/prefs/display_all_workspaces
You can navigate down the tree or use the “Find” function.
That’s it! Have a lot of fun!
Update: see the first comment for an equally obscure but perhaps easier method.
Hi John,
I’m no OpenSUSE user, but I assume OpenSUSE ships the regular Gnome “Window List” applet.
If so, the configuration option you’ve been looking for can be found in the taskbar’s “Preferences” dialog. You can open the dialog by right-clicking the handle on the very left of the taskbar widget. Depending on your GTK the taskbar handle might be hard to spot.
HTH, Daniel