A dock of some sort in conjunction with the stock Tint2 panel in #! ?

Psyduck9550 · 2012-09-13 20:41:24

Hiya! I'm a little curious as to how well adding a dock of some sort to the stock Openbox + Tint2 config in Crunchbang would work, I mean it would improve ease-of-use due to being able to make the applications you access most often accessible just by a mouse click, as opposed to right-clicking to pull up a menu, and then navigating through that menu.

So basically, if it works out well, adding a dock in Crunchbang might actually be kinda cool. smile

gurtid · 2012-09-13 20:52:41

take your pick - most work to varying degrees.

I myself have settled on adding launchers to the tint2 panel which i guess is what you may be wanting to achieve. If interested in doing that, check out vastOne's most awesome 'how to'

gurtid · 2012-09-13 20:56:55

here is an example of what my launchers look like . . . also remember you can run more than 1 instance of tint2 i.e. have a tint2 launcher panel on the side of the screen and your main tint2 panel on the bottom of the screen

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/256034/#p256034

Psyduck9550 · 2012-09-13 21:46:55

gurtid wrote:

take your pick - most work to varying degrees.
I myself have settled on adding launchers to the tint2 panel which i guess is what you may be wanting to achieve. If interested in doing that, check out vastOne's most awesome 'how to'

Nope. Just the stock Tint2 panel on the top of the screen, and then a dock of some sort, most likely AWN, at the bottom of the screen.

gurtid · 2012-09-13 23:06:48

AWN works no problems.

VastOne · 2012-09-13 23:45:45

You can also make tint2 work just like AWN... See my sig line for a How To on how to do it

dbvolvox · 2012-09-14 19:59:46

I added Cairo-dock which works fine but on reflection I mostly use it for those things that are branched on the OB menu and nearly always use Rt-click for Terminal, Browser and e-mail.

VastOne · 2012-09-14 20:02:22

^ I used to use Cairo-Dock until it became a dependency nightmare. That was the reason why I worked on Tint2 to make it work just like Cairo without all the overhead.

Psyduck9550 · 2012-10-02 19:14:57

I just figured out an answer. Swap out Tint2 with LXpanel, and set LXpanel up to mimic GNOME panel. -shrug- That definitely adds some ease-of-use points to Crunchbang, or really any other Openbox setup. Set up LXpanel to mimic GNOME panel, you get a start menu, a dock, AND a task bar. Problem solved.

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A dock of some sort in conjunction with the stock Tint2 panel in #! ?

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