can't iconify windows?

[chuck lawrence]

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.


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