can't iconify windows?

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 14:23 -0700, chuck lawrence wrote:
> On 9/6/2007 9:00 AM, rstevens at 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.

Glad it worked for you.

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