On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 08:29, Brian K. Jones wrote: > Hi, > > Default RH8/gnome setup, and I have a couple of issues on my work box > that I don't have at home, and I'm not sure how to fix them. The gnome > control center is a lot different now! > > 1) on the gnome panel, I thought a 'window list' would show all the > windows you have open. It used to be there by default. Maybe it still > is, but when I minimize windows, I have no way of unminimizing them, > because there's nothing on the panel to click on to do so, which leads > to my second question: > There should have been one on the default panel. Did you upgrade, or was it a clean install? To restore it, right-click on the panel, and select "Add to panel->Utility->Window List". > 2) Alt-tab on the desktop does nothing. At home I thought this worked > by default, so I must've missed something. The keyboard shortcut > application from the control panel appears to be almost useless. The > docs appear to have lots of default shortcuts in the screenshot, but > mine has nothing. Desktop and Window Management are listed in the > 'shortcuts' box, but that's it. And clicking on them does nothing. I've not messed with the keyboard shortcut app, so I can't really help you here. What are you expecting alt-tab to do? If I'm on a desktop with apps open, it will cycle through the apps. Minimized apps will be included, but I'm not sure if that functionality is tied to the window list applet. > 3) How do I change window managers nowadays :) - I can't even find the > 'sawfish' configuration wizard or anything! The GNOME2 version of sawfish was not completely stable when RH 8.0 was released. I'm not sure if there are newer versions. Make sure sawfish is installed. >From a previous message: Open the gnome-session-properties program (Extras->Preferences->Session) and change metacity from respawn to normal. Finally open a terminal and do this: killall metacity ; (sawfish&)&. When sawfish is installed, the config utilities should appear in a submenu under "Extras->Preferences". If you use the version that came with RH 8.0, be prepared to do an occasional "killall rep". > > Thanks. > > > -- > > Brian K. Jones > System Administrator > Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University > jonesy@cs.princeton.edu > http://www.linuxlaboratory.org > http://phat.sourceforge.net > Voice: (609) 258-6080 -- Michael Knepher <limbo@bluethingy.com> -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
