Drawers
A drawer is an extension of a panel. You
can open and close a drawer in the same way that you can show and hide a panel.
A drawer can contain all panel objects, including launchers, menus, applets,
other panel objects, and other drawers. When you open a drawer, you can use
the objects in the same way that you use objects on a panel.
The following figure shows an open drawer that contains two panel objects.
The arrow on the drawer icon indicates that the icon represents a drawer
or menu.
You can add, move, and remove objects from drawers in the same way that
you add, move, and remove objects from panels.
To Open and Close a Drawer
To open a drawer, click on the drawer object in a panel. You can close
a drawer in the following ways:
To Add a Drawer to a Panel
You can add a drawer to a panel in the following ways:
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From the panel popup menu
Right-click on any vacant space on the panel, then choose ->.
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From any menu
You can add a menu as a drawer object to a panel.
To add a menu as a drawer to a panel, open the menu from the panel.
Right-click on any launcher in the menu, then choose ->.
To Modify Drawer Properties
You can modify properties for each individual drawer. You
can change features for each drawer, such as the visual appearance of the
drawer and whether the drawer has hide buttons.
To modify properties for a drawer perform the following steps:
Right-click on the drawer, then choose to display the Panel Properties dialog.
The dialog displays the General tabbed section.
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Select the properties for the drawer in the dialog. The following
table describes the elements on the General tabbed section:
You can use the Background tabbed section
to set the background for the drawer. For information on how to complete the Background tabbed section, see the step on this topic in the section called “Panel Properties”. You can also drag a color or image on to a drawer
to set the color or image as the background of the drawer. For more information,
see the section called “Background Properties Tab”.
Click Close to close the Panel Properties dialog.
