How to Keep Tool Bar on working plan ? even with Ctrl+T

[bogs]

The only way I ever modify Xubuntu is to set up a "task bar" (read faux Mac dock) at the screen bottom with anything from 1 to 5 rows
of apps.

Please by all means do tell what special taskbar you have on the bottom that equals, as you put it earlier....

a heavily customised interface

Inquiring minds want to know <hee hee>.

So, if your not having this issue, and the software we're using is all the same, care to give me a hardware description you've deployed this too?

Jumping to conclusions as fast as a kangaroo leaps over gate:

Not at all, perhaps you missed the ...

* something else.

...part. I am merely trying to nail down why you seem to have a special snow flake in flight, if we can determine the difference, perhaps it can be resolved

*I'll go put that in bold in the original post, so you can see it more clearly