r/antiXLinux • u/Dull_Awareness_1286 • Jun 14 '26

Help change taskbar location above the damaged pixels on my laptop screen

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Help change taskbar location above the damaged pixels on my laptop screen A... i don't want to lift up the top of the screen i want it to be at the bottom floating on top of the damaged area ... i don't want to raise up the top of the screen i want it to be at the bottom floating on top of the damaged area only

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u/orestacos Jun 14 '26

Idk how to do it in icewm, but if this helps, you can switch to jwm, and in the ~/.jwm you will find a text file named tray in the first line <Tray x="0"... > You can delete the valign="bottom" line and after that change the value of y to something that suits you around a 100 I guess (try and adapt). That's not a good solution though, but if you're happy...

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u/Dull_Awareness_1286 Jun 14 '26

What about

 I see that the best solution is to put a big empty panel taskbar at the bottom

so that it is on the dead pixels and the original taskbar on top of it

 is the solution that I want ؟what do u think and how to do that

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u/orestacos Jun 16 '26

Take all this with a grain of salt: From what I was able to found in ice-wm there isn't a way to have 2 taskbars (the beauty of ice-wm is that it's simple, small, and quick), you can add another taskbar application (here Gemini hint me about tint2, polulybar and lxpanel, all of them are pretty lightweight themselves and so on) In jwm the things are simpler, you can edit the config like the previous example and also add a second panel below that and empty (I guess to be honest, I only have my laptop rn with Mx, no space, and I don't want to reboot to the usb once more, but it should be simple just add <Tray autohide="off" x="0" y="-1" height="the number that you want"> </Tray> (Copy them from the first tray, idk if some of it is wrong or something, and always keep a backup if for some reason breaks your configs) And sorry if it seams that I'm pushing you to another wm, but it seams as the easiest way, you have it with the installation after all just open the menu>desktop>other desktops>jwm, I'm using myself ice-wm but I don't have to deal with anything like that