Fedora and gnome panel
WipeOut
wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Feb 2 21:37:51 UTC 2004
David Miller wrote:
> I recently upgraded from RedHat 9 to Fedora.
>
> In RedHat 9 I had created drawers on the panel and dropped apps in the
> drawers. Worked well for me.
>
> When I installed Fedora all the drawers were there and there was an
> icon in the drawer for each app but each of these was another drawer now.
>
> I went through and deleated all the drawers and started over. and
> added all the drawers to the panel and placed then placed my apps in
> the draweres. They seems to work great. Later I logged out, when I
> logged back in all the apps changed back to drawers again.
>
> Frustrated, I thought there must be something that wasn't compatable
> between the config files of the old and new. I deleted all
> directories starting with .gnome and all others that I thought was
> related to gnome config. When I logged in the desktop changed from
> the Redhat desktop that I had been using to a different background and
> had all the default icons on the panel. Now I have a clean start. I
> put one drawer on the panel. Added a couple of apps to the drawer.
> They work fine. Logout then login and the icons are now drawers.
>
> The other problem I have is that I have always had focus change to the
> window the cursor is on and it would raise if I clicked in the
> window. I am still able to change focus when the cursor is placed in
> a window but it seams that I have to click on the title bar to raise
> the window. Is there a way to get my old behaivor.
>
> David Miller
>
>
>
To sort out the drawer issue install this updated version of Gnome-Panel
ftp://czarc.net/pub/gnome-panel-2.4.1-0.gc1.i386.rpm
Later..
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