Jul 28, '03 08:55:00AM • Contributed by: chicorico81@hotm
Luckily, I recently came across a handy dandy little open-source taskbar app called fspanel (f***ing small panel). I hacked it up a bit to add command line options for adjusting size, positioning, etc and fixed a minor bug or two, and I've found it to be a nice lightweight way to help navigate between my X11 windows. Here's a screenshot showing the toolbar in action next to the OS X dock.
If you want to try it out, you can get my modified version here, or you can get the original from their website. To use it, download and decompress fspanel_osx-0.8beta1.tar.gz, copy the fspanel binary into /usr/local/bin (or wherever you wanna put it), and add one of the following lines (or a variation thereof) near the top of your .xinitrc file. For a Windows-ish taskbar along the bottom of the screen (handy if your keep your OS X dock on the left or right side):
fspanel -fn sans-9 -h22 -t&For a slightly more dock-like taskbar, like the one in the screenshot:
fspanel -j -l600 -h40 -i32 -fn geneva-11 -t&For a tiny icon-only taskbar that floats above other windows:
fspanel -r300 -w28 -h22&fspanel --help will spit out a full list of options. The Gnome or KDE taskbars can be used to the same effect, and have more features, but this one is extremely light on resources and gets the job done (it even has window shade - just right-click a taskbar item).
