From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 21:52:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B78106566B for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 21:52:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@neu.net) Received: from mail.neu.net (neu.net [204.109.60.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA3B8FC08 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 21:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from neu.net (neu.net [204.109.60.194]) by mail.neu.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oB6Lqe4h019482; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 21:52:41 GMT (envelope-from andy@neu.net) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 21:52:40 +0000 (UTC) From: AN To: Michal Varga In-Reply-To: <1291672040.75858.8.camel@xenon> Message-ID: References: <1291672040.75858.8.camel@xenon> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.4 at neu.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.8 tests=T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail.neu.net Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnome panel problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:52:49 -0000 On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Michal Varga wrote: > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 21:32 +0000, AN wrote: >> I am having a problem with the bottom panel in Gnome2.32 on 8-stable >> amd64. When a new program is started I do no get an icon on the bottom >> panel. Without this I am unable to minimize a window, if you click on >> the minimize button the window goes away and there is no way to recover >> it. I tried to make deinstall and make install clean in gnome-panel but >> it did not fix the problem. Any one seeing this? Any help is >> appreciated. >> >> tia > > There is no "bottom panel" in Gnome. All Gnome panels and their applets > are fully customizable and there is nothing magical (and fixed) about > any one of them. > > What you probably did is that you just removed the Window List applet > from one of your default panels (your mentioned "bottom one") when you > started customizing them. > > So, just right click on a particular panel (note that you need to do > that outside an area already occupied by some applet (i.e. clock, > launchers, etc, otherwise you will get a context menu for that specific > applet, instead for the panel underneath) - pick "Add to Panel" and add > your Window List. > > m. > > > -- > Michal Varga, > Stonehenge (Gmail account) > > Hi Michal: That was exactly the problem, it is working fine now. Thank you for your quick response. Cheers