Hiding running applications from overview

[04s2lao]

Hi all, This ones been bugging me for a little while now. How can I go about "hiding" applications from the gnome overview? I.e. when I move my mouse to the top left my open windows gets spammed with all the xpad notes I have on my desktop. I would like it so I can see these notes when I view the desktop or click on the application in the taskbar (bottom right hot-corner) but not in overview.

Also in overview the dock insists on showing me that I have xpad and empathy running, is there anyway to stop these showing in the dock? I have them in the taskbar so I see little point in having them there as well.

I have been searching around the interwebs for at least 2 hours on this now but to no avail.

Attached is a screenshot of my overview, hopefully someone knows how to do this.

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[sea]

You could edit the rc.xml, it has some quoted-out examples at the bottom.

[DBelton]

Probably wouldn't work, sea..

Gnome 3 shell uses mutter for a window manager.. The rc.xml file is for openbox.

But I don't know how to go about hiding apps for the overview, if it is even possible...

[04s2lao]

So after a little more thought on the matter I've realised that this might not actually be a gnome issue, perhaps its more of a application issue. So I've installed pidgin and found that the persisting IM logo in the "overview dock" when the program is open, but has no windows open, is now gone. My thought line now is that the sticky notes application takes the wrong approach in terms of having each note as a separate window, although I can't think of any other way such a program would be able to operate... Perhaps a dedicated gnome extension needs making as in gnome 2...