Re: Desktop bottom margin

[Rob Adams <readams@readams.net>]

Any window that sets a _NET_WM_STRUT hint with the correct size and 
position will cause metacity to put a "margin" at the bottom, similar to 
the way it works for the gnome panel and other panel programs.

One trick you could do is make a panel on the bottom, then use the 
properties dialog to make it very very small horizontally.  This will 
make maximized windows not fill that area, but you'll still be able to 
put other windows there.

-Rob

Enver ALTIN wrote:

> Hey,
>
> On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 12:53 -0700, jimmi wrote:
>  
>
> > I have a gdesklets launch bar at the bottom of my desktop and I want
> > to avoid it to be covered by the windows while maximized. It was so
> > easy with xcfe4 to set a desktop bottom margin, but I couldn't find a
> > correspondent setting in gnome: anybody has a hint?
> >    
>
> There's a toy called devilspie by Ross Burton, which could be a bit of
> help, I believe.
>