Tasklist applet, shown in Figure 1, displays a table showing windowed applications running on your computer. Depending on the options chosen, you can display either those on the desktop currently in use, or on all virtual desktops. To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the panel and choose Applets->Utility->Tasklist.
Tasklist allows you to quickly navigate the applications running on your computer, displaying icons and application names for each application that meets the criteria you've set in the properties window. Clicking on an icon or application name gives focus to that application, bringing it to the foreground so it accepts your keyboard input, but only if it is located in the virtual desktop you are currently using.
Right-clicking with the mouse on an application's icon or text in the applet brings up the following menu:
Iconify — reduce the selected application to a panel icon. When an application already has been iconified, the menu item changes to Restore. Clicking on it restores the application to your desktop.
Shade — minimize the application to a single window bar. When an application has been Shaded, the menu item changes to Unshade. Clicking on Unshade restores the application to full size.
Stick — make application "sticky", which means it remains in your field of view when you change virtual desktops, following you as you go. When an application is sticky, the menu option Unstick is displayed, allowing you to leave an application behind as you continue your virtual desktop travels.
Kill — kills the application. The properties dialog allows you to have Tasklist prompt you for confirmation before causing an application's untimely death.
In addition to the standard menu items (see the section called Standard Pop-Up Items), the right-clickpop-up menu has Properties... item — This menu item opens the Properties dialog (see the section called Properties) which allows you to customize the appearance and behavior of this applet.
You can configure Tasklist applet by right-clicking on the applet and choosing the Properties... menu item. This will open the Properties dialog, shown in Figure 3.
The Properties dialog allows to you control which tasks are displayed:
Show normal applications — display, in the applet, all applications on the current desktop that have not been minimized.
Show iconified (minimized) applications — show all applications on the current desktop that have been minimized
Show normal applications on all desktops — show all full-sized, non-minimized applications on all desktops. For this to work, you must also have checked the Show normal applications checkbox above.
Show iconified (minimized) applications on all desktops — show all applications that have been minimized on all desktops. For this to work, you must also have checked Show iconified (minimized) applications above.
Show mini icons — Some applications support a miniature icon. This option displays it on the Tasklist panel.
Confirm before killing windows — have the applet prompt you before you're permitted to kill an application.
The size properties dialog controls how much space Tasklist takes up on your panel:
Follow panel size — have Tasklist size determined automatically based on panel size. This overrides other size options.
Tasklist width (height) — width (or height in vertical panel) of Tasklist in pixels.
Rows of tasks — determines how many rows of task icons Tasklist displays.
Default task size — set the default size for display of a task item. (This only has effect if Tasklist width is dynamic is checked below.)
Tasklist width (height) is fixed (dynamic) — Have the size of the tasklist fixed or established by the applet dynamically. Setting it to "fixed" means that the applet will always take the amount of space set in "tasklist width", even if there are no tasks. Setting it to dynamic means that the applet will take as much space as needed to show all tasks (zero if there are no tasks), but not more than the value set in Tasklist width.
All Properties dialogs have the following buttons at the bottom of the dialog:
OK — Pressing OK will activate any changes in the properties you have made and close the Properties dialog.
Apply — Pressing Apply at any time will make your changes active without closing the Properties dialog. This is helpful if you would like to test the effects of the changes you have made but may want to continue changing the properties.
Close — Pressing Close will close the Properties dialog. Only changes in the configuration which were previously applied with the Apply button will persist. Other changes will be discarded.
Help — Pressing Help brings up the manual for the application, opening it to the page describing the Properties dialog.
All applets should have the following items in their right-click pop-up menu:
The Remove from panel menu item removes the applet from the Panel.
After selecting Move, your mouse pointer will change appearance (typically to a cross with arrows in each direction). As you move your mouse, the applet will move with it. When you have finished moving the applet, click any mouse button and the applet will anchor in its current position. Note that applets can be moved between two Panels this way.
The Panel submenu contains various items and submenus for adding and removing Panels and applets and for changing the configuration.
The About... menu item brings up a dialogue box containing various information about the applet, typically including the applet's name, version, author, copyright, license and desciption.
The Help menu item brings up the help manual for the applet.
There are no known bugs in the Tasklist applet.
GNOME users are encouraged to report bugs to The GNOME Bug Tracking System. The easiest way to submit bugs is to use the Bug Report Tool program by selecting Main Menu->Utilities->Bug Report Tool. Be sure to be complete in describing what you did to cause the bug to surface and, if possible, describe how the developer can reproduce the the scenario.
This applet was writen by Anders Carlsson <andersca@gnu.org>. The documentation for this applet which you are reading now was written by John Fleck<jfleck@inkstain.net>.