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Bug 61988 - "Show Desktop" or "Minimize All Windows" functionality
"Show Desktop" or "Minimize All Windows" functionality
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: panel
1.5.x
Other other
: High enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 75118 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 73072
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-10-09 04:00 UTC by Alex Barnes
Modified: 2015-03-24 13:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Alex Barnes 2001-10-09 04:00:49 UTC 
I swear I saw this in KDE, but I can't find the Gnome equivalent.  Is there
a nice, simple "Minimize Windoze" (I mean, "Minimize Windows") applet for
Gnome?

I'm using Ximian-Gnome (maybe that's the problem)...
Comment 1 Kjartan Maraas 2001-10-13 16:14:56 UTC 
You mean like "Show desktop" or "Minimize all apps"?
Comment 2 Alex Barnes 2001-10-13 17:44:19 UTC 
Exactly.
Comment 3 Alex Barnes 2001-11-20 19:27:22 UTC 
Greg Merchan has written some code to do this.  It's at:

http://www.phys.lsu.edu/students/merchan/GNOME/ScuttleButt2.tar.gz

You also need
http://www.phys.lsu.edu/students/merchan/GNOME/scuttlebutt.gnorba

I needed to make a minor change to get it to work for me, RedHat 7.2
with Ximian (gnome-core-1.4.0.4-ximian.6):

--- Makefile.orig	Tue Nov 20 14:11:52 2001
+++ Makefile	Tue Nov 20 14:17:09 2001
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 	gcc -o scuttlebutt scuttlebutt.o gwmh.o gstc.o `gnome-config --libs
applets gnomeui gtk`
 
 scuttlebutt.o: scuttlebutt.c
-
gcc -c scuttlebutt.c `gnome-config --cflags applets gnomeui gtk` -I.
+
gcc -c scuttlebutt.c `gnome-config --cflags applets gnomeui gtk`
-I/usr/include/orbit-1.0 -I.
 
 gwmh.o: gwmh.c gwmh.h gstc.h
 	gcc -c gwmh.c `gnome-config --cflags gnomeui gtk` -I.
Comment 4 Kjartan Maraas 2002-01-04 11:14:57 UTC 
Does this code look like it could  be included?
Comment 5 Luis Villa 2002-01-22 19:57:18 UTC 
Adding relevant keywords. You can filter on the phrase 'luis doing GNOME2 work'
to catch all instances of this so that you can ignore them.
Comment 6 Gediminas Paulauskas 2002-02-23 00:43:10 UTC 
moving gnome-panel-2 specific bugs to gnome-panel product
Comment 7 Seth Nickell 2002-03-01 03:19:07 UTC 
This feature exists in the menu applet, which we will hopefully switch
to post GNOME 2.0.
Comment 8 Luis Villa 2002-03-20 05:31:11 UTC 
*** Bug 75118 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Mark McLoughlin 2002-08-05 01:40:42 UTC 
2002-08-05  Mark McLoughlin  <mark@skynet.ie>

        * foobar-widget.c: (append_actions_menu): if the wm
        supports it, add a 'Show Desktop' item. #61988.

        * xstuff.[ch]:
        (panel_atom_get): remove display arg. We always use the
        default display - no multidisplay support here.
        (xstuff_net_wm_supports): impl.
        (xstuff_show_desktop): send _NET_SHOW_DESKTOP ClientMessage.
Comment 10 Shane O'Connor 2002-10-21 10:15:30 UTC 
how do you know if the window manager is supposed to support it? Does
metacity support this - should there be a "Show desktop" option in the
Actions menu with metacity?