XFCE, window effects and other questions.

I really like XFCE mostly because it has what I need and it is really fast.
Anyway, first I have activated a few effects and that is to have my inactive windows transparent and all windows titlebar it all working good. But is there any way to exclude any window from the transparency stuff?
Another thing is that I have pidgin installed to use ICQ and MSN works nice, But is it posible to hide the "taskbutton" for pidgin on the task/window list that is normally at the top of the screen? And maybe also from alt+tab/middle-click menu.

McZ wrote:Anyway, first I have activated a few effects and that is to have my inactive windows transparent and all windows titlebar it all working good. But is there any way to exclude any window from the transparency stuff?
I don't think there's any way to do it within Xfwm, but you could try devilspie. It's in [extra].

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using this with a Mac? Need to be reformatted or
anything?
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2.) Can you access ActiveX based websites without
problems?
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3.) I have a Windows XP machine with 4 drives in
RAID format. Could I use this as a common storage
network drive for both Mac and PC's at the same time
(for instance, store MP3's on it, and access and play
them from either the iMac and other Windows PC's
without a problem?).
Yes
What about jpg formatted
pictures?
Yes
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These are kind of minor inconveniences I guess, but it would be nice if I could change them. Other than these few things CC has been pretty good. I definitely like that it's 64 bit. I got out of memory errors a lot with CS4. Anyhow, thanks for taking the time to read my questions!

TopePrinting wrote:
1) This one is really annoying me: I select multiple items, like a picture and some text, to move them somewhere. I then want to maybe change the size of the text box, or crop the picture a little. What used to happen in CS4 was exactly what I wanted to happen: whichever item I clicked on to edit would be edited. In CC, it resizes everything selected! If I want to resize ALL the items, I'll group them. Is there an option to turn that off? I've looked through every menu I could find but didn't see anything that would refer to that.
I have InDesign CS5.5 - and when I select more than 1 object I get a bounding box for all the items - it's impossible to resize just one item without affecting everything selected.
TopePrinting wrote:
2) In the same vein: When I select a couple items, like a text box on top of a burst or an ellipse or something, and I then want to edit some of the text. In CS4 I could double click and it would turn into the type tool and I could edit text. It still works the same in CC, but only if I have just the text box selected. If there's anything else selected, it just doesn't work.
I really don't see this behaviour at all.
TopePrinting wrote: 3) I complained about this one when I changed from CS2 to CS4, but it's still a problem: When I print, and put in a particular page range, it prints those pages. Now, when I go back to print again, it has defaulted back to printing all pages. I'd really like to be able to hit CTRL-P then Enter, instead of using the mouse to select my page range again. Is there some option that I can change somewhere for that? It works fine in Print Booklet, and Export to PDF. It's only when I print normally this happens.
No - this is the way it works - annoying!
What's really frustrating is that it will remember the amount of copies you've input too! I would like that reset to 1 after I print 100 copies. All too often I've opened a file from last year to print a copy and hit Ctrl+P and then Return as the shortcuts - and I get 100 copies printed again!!!
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Once you have the screen setup the way you like it go to Window>Workspaces and click "New Workspace"
Save as it something unique to you.
Everytime you open InDesign this should be the default panel settings.
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They are minor for sure - and we all have niggly bits in InDesign that frustrate us.
But unfortunately this is a user-to-user forum so it's unlikely to be picked up by Adobe employees.
I suggest you put it in the feature request forums - http://forums.adobe.com/community/indesign/indesign_feature_requests
There's the Adobe Feature Request page - https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
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<languageVersion : 1.0;>
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<   namespace : "Your Namespace";
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>
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alucardbc wrote:
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