Hoping my question is not regarded as silly, I would like to know how, if possible, I can attach the xeyes utility to the task bar. I do not simply want an icon on the task bar for launching xeyes, but rather have the animated eyes appear on the taskbar and not in a separate window. I'm fairly sure I had it this way on a debian distribution about 10 years ago. I am currently running squeeze and my desktop environment is GNOME 2.30.2.
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Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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What desktop environment or window manager and what taskbar application (if it isn't part of the DE/WM) are you running? – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Mar 25 '16 at 23:04
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@Gilles Sorry for my late reply. I am running GNOME version 2.30.2. I do not think I have changed the taskbar/panel application, so it should be the default; don't know what it's called though. – Étienne Bézout Mar 26 '16 at 10:15
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xeyes doesn't know how to embed itself in another window like the taskbar - GNOME 2.x included a geyes applet in the gnome-applets set that could do that, which is probably what you remember.
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I seem to remember some window managers coming with "panels" which could swallow any window — AfterStep or Window Maker maybe? – Stephen Kitt Jan 12 '17 at 17:04
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