Clip

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The clip is represented by the icon on the top left of the screen.
It's a dock extender, sort of, since it almost behaves like the dock does, but with much more features.
The current workspace name and number are displayed on the clip.
The bottom left and top right arrows allow to scroll through workspaces.
The clip has numerous menu driven features.

  • Clip Menu

    Clicking in the clip with the right mouse button displays a menu.

    clip menu

    The first item of this menu allows to define the clip options. Selecting it, brings a submenu where to set:
    - Keep on top: keep the clip over other windows.
    - Collapsed: when selected, all the icons docked into the clip seem to be hided. Double-clicking in the clip unhides them.
    - Autocollapse: when selected, does the same as the previous option. Bringing the mouse pointer over the clip unhides the icons.
    - Autoraise lower: when selected, clicking in an icon representing a window hided under a bigger one will bring that window to front.
    - Autoattract icons: selecting this option attracts the icon of every running application. Exiting the application removes the icon from the clip.
    - Keep attracted icons: when selected, even if an application was killed, it's icon remains.
    This option has been replaced with "Keep icon" from version 0.62.

    The next menu item can be different according to the selected icon.
    This means that if the icon clip is selected the item allows to rename workspace.
    If an application icon is selected the item allows to make the icon omnipresent in all workspaces.
    Other menu items allow to select all the clip docked icons, to move icons to a different workspace, to remove or to attract icons.
    Last menu items are obvious and are similar to those of the dock application menu. That is an application can be launched, hided, killed and it's settings can be modified.

    From version 0.80.0, the clip can "steal" appicons. This feature has nothing to do with Autoattract Icons. When you start an application from somewhere else than either the clip or the dock (menu or terminal), and the appicon exists in one of them (clip or dock), this appicon doesn't appear at the bottom of your screen. The appicon existing in the clip or the dock "stole" it. As a result, the appicon is the same as the one used to start the application from the clip or the dock.
    More specific information about the clip is available in the NEWS file.

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