Vertical taskbars on MATE

[Peter Flynn]

On 26/08/18 21:00, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 at 21:54, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
> 
>> I'm afraid I have given up on that after waiting 20 mins for the page to
>> load.
> 
> It's just an imgur gallery with 4 modest-sized pics. It opened in 3sec
> from my poor-quality wifi here. I just timed it.

Quite possibly but not from this side of the planet at that time.

> Try going to the Imgur main page and logging in -- any OpenID will do
> -- and then you could go via my member page:

I tried logging in with my Google ID but now it wants me to create a 
username and every one I pick it rejects. I have tried a dozen, 
including some random strings and it still rejects them.

>> Obviously I didn't understand what a taskbar was, so I can't help, sorry.
> 
> It's OK, I'm not looking for help! :-) I am just annoyed that a basic
> feature of Windows for 25y is impossible in most of the Linux desktops
> *which are direct copies of that Windows desktop*.

As I have only used Windows a couple of times, I'm not sure what it is: 
do you mean the bar at the bottom which contains an icon for each 
program that is running? I always thought that was because Windows only 
provides one screen and you click on the icons to flip between 
applications. On a Mac it does it in the dock by lighting up a small dot 
beside or under the application. In Enlightenment it used to do the same 
but now it lights up an underline below the application icon in the dock 
which is much more usable. I haven't used KDE or KFC or xfce or any of 
the other window managers for ages so I'm not familiar with their layout 
but if they don't have a way to show what programs are running, it's an 
omission that needs to be rectified.

P