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Re: can't iconify windows?

From: chuck lawrence <celawrence(at)lbl.gov>
Date: Mon Sep 10 2007 - 17:23:42 EDT


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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