On my Gnome taskbar, I have the Red Hat, 6 quick-links, and the box of 4 windows lined up in a row next to each other. Then I have a small square gap about the size of one of the quick-links between two clear dotted lines. Next to that I have a blue check (up2date), a gap (some times there are keys there) and then the date. To the right of the date is a blank taking up 1/3 of the bar. When I open an object, such as my home folder, mozilla, etc, everything crowds into that tiny empty box to the left of the check mark. The blue checkmark starts at the center of the task bar rather than the right corner. When I right clicked on the task-bar and selected "Properties" I could adjust the size of the icons in it. I adjusted to xxlarge and back to medium. Now, from right to left, I have the clock, the key's space, the check and the tiny box for the open windows, then the rest of the space is available for quick-links which are spread out between the red hat and the desktops box. This is weird. ===================== I just discovered how to fix the problem. For those of you who may have the problem, here is the solution. Once I got the quick-link icons reduced, I manually moved them to the left next to each other. Then I moved the box that shows the open windows to the left of the four desktop box. Finally I was able to stretch the window to the left until it was next to the quick-link icons. Now I get three icons for open windows across the bottom. I was going to delete this email but decided to send it as someone else might have the same problem. Buck -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list