Desktop and taskbar?

I got the main menu to show up with "xfce-setting-show" in terminal. What would really make this worth while though is if I could get rid of the desktop and be able to add icons etc. etc. to the menu bar. Any idea how I could go abouts doing that?

 

try with "xfce-panel -a" to create a shortcut

but some change create bug

 

well, i got rid of the bakground, but I still have the "internet/desktop" search bar on my desktop

 

Removing the search-bar


Removing the search-bar is very simple as well. Open the file /usr/share/search-bar/start-search_bar.sh and comment out each line to make the content look like so:

#!/bin/sh
#resolution=`xrandr |grep \*|awk '{print $1}'`
#resolution=`xrandr |grep current|awk -F"current" '{print $2}'|awk -F"," '{print $1}'|sed 's/\ //g'`
#
#if [ $resolution = "1280x800" ];then
# acer-search-desktop --x=650 --y=90 --width=490 --height=31
#elif [ $resolution = "1024x600" ];then
# acer-search-desktop --x=510 --y=65 --width=490 --height=31
#else
# acer-search-desktop
#fi


I found this for getting rid of the taskbar but I don't know what comment out means

 

open system add/remove sofware in the advanced menu

search acersearchbar and remove it

reboot et voila

 

"Comment out" means put a hash symbol (#) at the beginning of the line of text. The program that accesses that file will then treat thet line of text as a comment on the code, and not act on it. It's like the "REM" command in ZX Spectrum BASIC, if that means anything to you.