xfce icons instead of tabs

Question

For my taskbar programs are displayed like:

(symbol of chromium)askubuntu.com

I would like it as:

symbol of chromium [no titles]

askubuntu.com

imagemagick man page

Like in cinnamon or windows 7. No annoying long titles. Displaying whichever window by title whenever I click on the symbol.

I am running xfce xubuntu x64 tried a ton of different options in the settings manager, but cannot locate it, if it is there. How would I go about doing this so my desktop doesn't look like a complete mess?

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 17 '13 at 21:57

5

Finally figured it out. Posted in case anyone has trouble with this.

Two solutions:

Right click panel> Panel Preferences> Mode> Deskbar

If horizontal mode is to be selected then go to the items section > Window Buttons and uncheck show button labels.

answered Jun 17 '13 at 21:57

user140393

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The deskbar works fine on XFCE 4.16, but the horizontal mode does not seems to have the "show button labels" option anymore. Has the feature been dropped? – BsAxUbx5KoQDEpCAqSffwGy554PSah Sep 18 '23 at 23:32

xfce icons instead of tabs

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