Thu, 16/02/2012 - 16:55 | 
webupd8.org
Window Applets is a pack of two GNOME panel applets that lets you put the window title and buttons on the top panel. Since GNOME 3, Window Applets stopped working but today, a new version has been released with support for the GNOME 3 classic / fallback panel.
The Window Buttons applet is basically like the Ubuntu window buttons displayed on the top panel for maximized windows, except it's for the classic GNOME session and it's highly customizable:
- you can move it anywhere you want on the panel
- many built-in themes, more available on Gnome-Look.org
- select if you want it to control all windows or only maximized windows
- automatically hide for non-maximized windows
- change the button order
- hide some of the buttons
- more!
Tags: Tue, 05/07/2011 - 09:52 | webupd8.org
(DockBarX running as an Avant Window Navigator applet)
DockBarX is a GNOME Panel / AWN applet and last month it also got an option to run as a stand-alone dock (run "dockx" to launch it) but it was missing autohide, a very important feature for a dock.
Well, autohide was added to DockBarX 0.45, released today. There's no intellihide and you can't customize the autohide behavior yet, but this is an important step and we might see this in a future release.
DockBarX 0.45 also comes with lots of bug fixes such as crashes or quicklists being displayed in random order.
(DockBarX running as a stand-alone dock)
Thu, 09/06/2011 - 15:07 | webupd8.org
(DockBarX running as an Avant Window Navigator applet)
After four months of development, a new DockBarX version has finally been released: 0.44. Previously, DockBarX could run as a Avant Window Navigator / GNOME Panel applet but starting with this version, DockBarx works as a stand-alone dock too (run "dockx" to launch it), great for those running GNOME Shell or the classic GNOME session.
This new feature also comes with some options:
- you can position the dock on the left / bottom / right / top
- there are 3 modes: centered, panel or corner
- you can change the dock size
- multi-monitor support: you can specify the number of monitors via command line ("dockx --monitor 1").
