Comments on: Gnome – multiple monitor taskbar window listing

By: Marcelo Rocha

Marcelo Rocha — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:49:27 +0000

Fantastic. Thank you

By: Oliver Worthington

Oliver Worthington — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:19:33 +0000

Excellent, I upgraded to Linux Mint today and wanted to find out how to emulate Ultramon, seems Linux happily accommodates for this. Brilliant tip, after searching I found you needed to old the “alt” key when dragging the new “panel” excellent! Thank you!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:13:30 +0000

I’ve been looking for years how to do this. Thanks

By: James

James — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:30:32 +0000

Thanks for the great help. You saved me quite a bit of time.

By: anders

anders — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:20:28 +0000

2.) Drag that to any monitor.

The key is ALT!!

2) ALT + Drag to any monitor

By: Valleix

Valleix — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:50:42 +0000

Thank you, just what I needed!

By: wavep

wavep — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:42:17 +0000

Thanks, very usefull!!

By: Lloyd Leung

Lloyd Leung — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:50:24 +0000

Rob,

Just hold down “alt”, click-hold-and-drag the new panel to where ever you need it.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:46:51 +0000

This still didn’t work for me.

8800GT, Xinerama, Ubuntu 9.10.

I’ve recently been informed of another way though, bare in mind it’s heaps “hacky”. Just spawn gnome-panels (Right click -> New panel) until the one monitor fills up, then it’ll loop onto the 2nd. Delete the ones you don’t need.
Voila, 2nd gnome-panel. You can then dump w/e you need on it.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:44:19 +0000

This technique used to work well for me until Fedora 11. Now Gnome no longer lets me drag panels. The options only move panels on the same monitor. Even worse the window listing is only for windows on that monitor.

So here is what happened. I accidentally logged in once without switching my kvm for my right monitor. So now the right monitor panel shows up on the left monitor. I have no way of moving it back. If I drag a window to my right monitor, then it no longer appears in my window listing. If I minimize a window on the right monitor, then there is no icon and I can not restore the window.

Yuck. As a quick hack so I can work normally, I activated xinerama. This “works”, but is annoying, as now I frequently have windows open up that span the two inch gap between monitors. That makes reading the contents of those windows very difficult.

Bill