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Offline Howard

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What means "iconify all windows"? SOLVED
« on: September 19, 2011, 12:02:18 PM »
At the bottom of my screen is an icon which gives the message "Left click to iconify all windows ....." when I hover the cursor over it.  As far as I can see it does nothing at all.   What's it for?
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Re: What means "iconify all windows"?
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2011, 12:19:32 PM »
Can't see your icon, sorry...

Maybe it will all open windows minimize... ::)
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Re: What means "iconify all windows"?
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2011, 01:40:40 AM »
Quote from: Howard on September 19, 2011, 12:02:18 PM
At the bottom of my screen is an icon which gives the message "Left click to iconify all windows ....." when I hover the cursor over it.  As far as I can see it does nothing at all.   What's it for?

when you have a program or several programs open and you press that button all your programs that are running are put to the taskbar and you have a clean desktop.  It's a quick switch to minimise all programs running on that desktop.

If you press that button while no programs are open it indeed does nothing at all ...  ;)
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Re: What means "iconify all windows"?
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2011, 05:56:43 AM »
So it does!  Thanks, mystery resolved.
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Re: What means "iconify all windows"? SOLVED
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2011, 04:25:59 PM »
Aha!  Same as the 'Show the Desktop' icon in KDE.....
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Re: What means "iconify all windows"? SOLVED
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2011, 04:51:36 PM »
Yes I was thinking that the wording could be improved.  "Clear the desktop" was my version.
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