Hey there folks, hope you're all staying healthy and safe...
Haven't used a dock since the glory days of Rocketdock and am trying to get into the groove again. Nexus seems pretty cool, but I have a few issues that I'd like your help with...
1. How to get a shortcut to Windows File Explorer on the dock that will actually shows open explorer windows as running tasksYes I know how to right-click the dock and add "My Computer". However, when I do this & open either one or several explorer windows, none of these open windows shows up as running process icons on the dock.
I've tried disabling and enabling "Show minimized applications only" and then minimizing the explorer windows and bringing them back to the desktop again. No luck.
Clicking on the explorer icon in the dock just opens more explorer windows, it doesn't bring the minimized windows back.
Surely I'm not the only one who is frustrated by this?
2. Process capturingIf I open an application which doesn't have a shortcut on the dock, then Nexus refuses to acknowledge its existence - no icon for this new running process showing up in the dock, nada. This basically means that if I want Nexus to show a running process icon for an open app, then I have to create a shortcut for this app on the dock first.
So what I'm asking in my own convoluted way is: isn't it possible for Nexus to "capture" opened processes and display an icon for these on the dock? It's been 600 years since I used a Mac, but I'm pretty sure that's how it worked in the OSX dock... Surely I'm not the only one missing such a feature?
These 2 features are a deal-breaker for me. I often have a whole bunch of apps open & several file explorer windows open, and if the dock doesn't allow me an overview of all these windows & the possibility of switching to one of these via the dock, then there's not much reason to use the dock in stead of the Windows taskbar - which easily gives an easy overview of all open explorer windows. Likewise: I don't want to have a shortcut to every single app I use on the dock - but I do want the dock to be able to capture any new process when I open the app - regardless of whether I have a shortcut for this app on the dock or not - and display an icon for this app in the tasks area of the dock... If this isn't possible - which it is for the Windows taskbar - then that's another big reason to stay with the taskbar in stead of just using the dock...
3. Oh - and I remember "stacks"...Back in the day, I was a member of the aqua-soft community, where this awesome guy from Argentina, Matias Moreno aka. matonga, made an awesome "stacks" docklet - google it...
We're now in 2020 - about 10 years later, I'd take it as a given that such an awesome thing was a staple part of docks nowadays... Can someone explain to me how this works in the current version of Nexus...?
Edit: Just read that all kinds of cool stacks are available in the paid Ultimate version. My bad.
Happy skinning.