Re: can't iconify windows?

[chuck lawrence <celawrence lbl gov>]

On 9/6/2007 9:00 AM, rstevens internap com wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:17 -0700, chuck lawrence wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I recently built a centos 4 system (since upgraded to centos 5) on an 
> > old ibm 1.6ghz p4.
> >
> > most everything went well, but I am unable to see any icons once I've 
> > iconified any windows, browser, terminal, game, openoffice, etc.  I 
> > haven't checked carefully, but I think whatever is in the window dies 
> > when I click minimize.  in any event, I click minimize and the window 
> > disappears from view.
> >
> > I hoped my 4.0 -> 5.0 upgrade (cited above) would fix it, but no.
> >
> > grateful for any insight....
>
> Make sure you have the window list applet running.  Just right click
> on the bottom panel, click on "Add to Panel", scroll down to "Window
> List", click on it and click "Add".
>
> Don't forget to save your session so it starts up next time.  Make sure
> you have "Automatically save changes to session" selected in the
>
>     System->Preferences->More Preferences->Sessions->Session Options
>
> tab


oh, you are good.  this worked perfectly.  thanks.


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