Panel set up in Mint 18.3

[Daniel~]

Batman you will want to go into your main menu/preferences/systems settings.Right click on it and select Add to panel. You find most of the things you want to set up here

 

[Daniel~]

I use top and bottom. I use to know how to make all open windows appear in the top panel.Darn If I can remember now how I did it.

I just needed to install a Separator and a panel launcher

 

[booman]

I totally forgot about that.
You can choose your workspaces to show screens or names.
So if you name them:

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Then all you will see is numbers.

Also play around with Ctrl+Alt+ArrowKeys
There are some pretty need settings and ways to move your windows around to different workspaces