Hey ppls, i was wonderin if anyone can help me. Im using litestep and am a noobie. Anyway, im tryin to make it so that in the taskbar, you know how theres all the tasks which are currently running, placed next to each other. Well i was wondering if its possible to switch from one Desktop/workspace to another, and not have the "Tasks" stay in the taskbar when switched to a new desktop?

Do you know what i mean? like in kde you can do that. so if im in Desktop 1, and ive started like 10 explorer windows, and they're all there in the taskbar, and i want a fresh new desktop with nothin in the taskbar, i can just switch to desktop 2, and there'll be nothing there. But if i switch back to desktop 1, all my previous tasks will be on that taskbar.

Please help if you can, cos i find thaat to be quite handy and practical.

Thanks.

It will help if you say what theme you're using, and also which vwm.

yes that´s possible. with ckvwm the setting is:

VWMHideTaskOnSwitch true

Um the reason i didn't name the theme was cos i didn't think i needed to. I thought the same principle could apply to any Step.rc file from any theme. But anyways, im actually using Glacier.

Hey moshi are you the one that wrote that?

Yeah VWMHideTaskOnSwitch works well, when i have windows "open" and active or opened on a desktop, it doesn't appear on the taskbar of another desktop when i switch, however, if a window is minimized, it will still appear in the taskbar when i switch desktops. um, im sure its probably just one extra line of code. Can anyone tell me what it is?
Appreciated.

ckvwm was written by Chaku

i was referring to the theme glacier that moshi might've written not the module ckvwm

It's all good, I must be a tad drunk :)

I don't know about ckvwm, but for rabidvwm I specifically make minimized windows show up on all desktops for some technical reason that I don't remember at the moment. You can't disable this because bad things happen, although I can't specifically tell you what at the moment. It might have been that it'd just take a lot more work and I wasn't feeling that ambitious... not that any of this necessarily matters if you're using ckvwm. :)

guess Chaku had the same thoughts. i just checked the ckvwm docs and can´t find a solution for this.

btw: how about rolling up windows instead of minimizing them? there are plenty of solutions for doing this. try freeshade for example: http://www.shellfront.org/utils/

for rolling, or shading, you could also try wndman.dll. It also does a bunch of other useful things. Good call for working around your "problem"

but shading with wndman.dll works with hotkeys only. or did i miss something?

well, also with gestures or shortcuts (w/ shortcuts you'll obviously have to specify classname of windows to shade). Anyway, hotkeys would probably be the quickest and easiest way to do it.
But it still might not be what the thread-author wanted though ;)

thanks everyone for the help. i downloaded freeshade, and reckon its quite good. Makes it feel more like linux. i prefer to use mouse clicks as opposed to hotkeys so i chose freeshade over wndman.dll

The solution wasn't what i had in mind originally, but like TucknDar said, its a good way of workin around the problem. Pretty satisfied with this solution actually. =)

If you are using tasks.dll as taskbar module, there's a line called "TasksHideMinAppBar" which should hide the minimized windows. I don't know if that will solve your problem but it might.

I use ckVWM. And in ckVWM config, there's an command "VWMHideTaskOnSwitch".
I think it will solve your problem.

offa: TasksHideMinAppBar doesn't hide minimized windows. Use TasksDisplay instead (read the doc again). TasksHideMinAppBar just hide the minimized application bars (not all minimized applications, and NOT the minimized application tile in the taskbar). To understand what it mean, run "nero-burning rom" (the one that react in my case), burn a CD and minimize the burning window. Without TasksHideMinAppBar, you'll see the nero title bar in the left bottom corner. With it on, you won't see it.