[opensuse] Why aren't my windows iconified ?
I am running SuSE 11.1 on both my old laptop and a prehistoric desktop. The two installations are identical, as far as I can tell. However, on my laptop the upper right corner button, provided by the Windows Manager to resize the windows, is handled correctly, that is the window gets iconified and the icon ends up on the bottom menu bar from which it can be resized to its original size. On the prehistoric desktop, instead, such a button when selected causes the window to disappear from the screen leaving no trace of it anywhere. Why am I getting a different behaviour ? Is there anny option to set up the Window Manager so as to behave evenly ? Thank you very much, Maura -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Maura Monville wrote:
I am running SuSE 11.1 on both my old laptop and a prehistoric desktop. The two installations are identical, as far as I can tell. However, on my laptop the upper right corner button, provided by the Windows Manager to resize the windows, is handled correctly, that is the window gets iconified and the icon ends up on the bottom menu bar from which it can be resized to its original size. On the prehistoric desktop, instead, such a button when selected causes the window to disappear from the screen leaving no trace of it anywhere. Why am I getting a different behaviour ? Is there anny option to set up the Window Manager so as to behave evenly ?
if your pre-historic is running KDE3, 4 or Gnome i _guess_ you need to right click on that "bottom menu bar" select (something like) "Add applet to panel" then find and click on (something like) "Task Bar"...which should add a place on the pre-historic's panel for the icons to land on.. peace, DenverD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 08 November 2009 17:06:58 DenverD wrote:
Maura Monville wrote:
I am running SuSE 11.1 on both my old laptop and a prehistoric desktop. The two installations are identical, as far as I can tell. However, on my laptop the upper right corner button, provided by the Windows Manager to resize the windows, is handled correctly, that is the window gets iconified and the icon ends up on the bottom menu bar from which it can be resized to its original size. On the prehistoric desktop, instead, such a button when selected causes the window to disappear from the screen leaving no trace of it anywhere. Why am I getting a different behaviour ? Is there anny option to set up the Window Manager so as to behave evenly ?
if your pre-historic is running KDE3, 4 or Gnome i _guess_ you need to right click on that "bottom menu bar" select (something like) "Add applet to panel" then find and click on (something like) "Task Bar"...which should add a place on the pre-historic's panel for the icons to land on..
I'd guess also that Maura is running KDE 4.1.3, as the default KDE 4 in 11.1, which had a propensity to lose components from its panel. I recommend a swift update to 11.2 when it becomes available. Will -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 09 November 2009 10:51:10 Will Stephenson wrote:
I'd guess also that Maura is running KDE 4.1.3, as the default KDE 4 in 11.1, which had a propensity to lose components from its panel. I recommend a swift update to 11.2 when it becomes available.
Or at the very least, upgrading KDE to 4.3: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/43/openSUSE_11.1 Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 10.3 32b | openSUSE 11.0 32b | | openSUSE 10.3 64b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2rc1 RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | TOS 4.02 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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