hi all!

me being a noobie litestep user, i had to ask this question. I have been using litestep since 4 months and i love it, but recently when i visited my friend, i saw him use aston+altdesk, there when we switch between desktops, the taskbar items dont appear in all the desktops but appear only in teh respective desktop, that atleast for me seems extremely comfortable than what i am having now ( i right now am on litestep with non-step theme with the default vwm rabidvwm i think). In my case even if i do move the window to another desktop, the taskbar item appears on all the desktops.

Is there any way i can get such fucntionality? if yes can it integrate with my theme ? :D

thanks a lot!

-tHeSiD

Theoretically it's possible with RabidVWM (CkVWM?) + xTaskbar. I say "theroretically" since when I tried it a while back it didn't seem to work properly. I can't recall what the exact problem was, but I think it was something along the lines of only one or two [out of several] apps being hidden when you switched desks. xTaskbar has been updated since then though, so it might be worth a try.

with xTaskbar:

and rabidVWM:

I think...

thanks!

i set them both to true, but still the tasks appear on all desktops


I am using rabidvwm-1.2.2 & xtaskbar-1.1.5.

I'm using rabidvwm-1.2.2 and xtaskbar-1.3.7 and it works. Try upgrading xtaskbar ;)

yes actually i did.. but it messed up mt taskbar.. with nonstep theme, the text appears in both the task styles and isnot aligned/properfont etc etc..

it wud be gr8 if you cud give me your config code for xtaskbar 1.3.7 :D

Oh, sorry, i forgot the "can it integrate with my theme" part. I'm not using nonstep :(
But the help file provided with xtaskbar explain how to change font, alignment ..
I downloaded nonstep, but the version i have uses tasks-0.92b4. If you could give a link to your theme, it would be easier to help you :)

well the i have nonstep 3.0.8.. which uses xtaskbar 115 .. heres teh link for the theme ..

thx for the help ;)

After having tried different things :
It appears that the command !xTaskbarLSBoxHook requires the name of the taskbar in version 1.3.7 and in 1.1.5 it's optionnal.
Try adding xTaskbar after !xTaskbarLSBoxHook in files top.rc and bottom.rc.

also, check your personal.rc, since "VWMHideTaskOnSwitch" is defined in there.

Yeah deuce is right, should have said that aswell.

thanks guys it worked!
I just had to change VWMHideTaskOnSwitch to true in my personal.rc file!. But i didnt upgrade to 1.3.7 tho. still using 1.1.5 which came with my theme.. coz as of now it has all the features and i cant seem to configure 1.3.7 properly :(, (asks me to use LoadInBox n all.. tried but taskbar dosent appear)

but anyway the main thing is, i got what i wanted :D.. thx a lot deuce fractaldesign leiaz, you guys rock :)

You don't need both of those settings, and they will have different effects.

VWMHideTaskOnSwitch will hide windows on other desktops both in the taskbar and the ALT-TAB list.

xTaskbarVWMCurrentDesktopOnly will hide windows on other desktops in the taskbar, but all windows will show up in the ALT-TAB list. Addidionally, if by some chance LiteStep crashes, they'll still be accessible.

The sid, your 1.3.7 errors sound like a module-load-order problem.... maybe "/