Re: Couple of possibly really stupid questions!

[Michael ROGERS <M Rogers cs ucl ac uk>]

>When using the gnome pager, how do you make an window behind another
>window come to the front?  For instance, I'll have an xterm window open,
>then I'll open a bunch of other apps/windows.  Invariably the xterm will
>get hidden behind a much larger window (netscape for instance).  Now, I
>can see that the pager has a button for the xterm, but left-clicking on
>the button does nothing (other than making a noise, but the window stays
>hidden.  The only thing I've been able to do to get it to work is middle
>click on the button (to hide the window) then middle click again (to
>unhide).  This brings it to the front.  Now, maybe I'm just too used to
>Windows, but it seems like a single click on one of those buttons should
>bring the window to the front so you can use it.

This is a bug in Enlightenment. Upgrading to 0.16.0 should fix it.

>Second question, I've recently had a problem with gnome on one of my
>accounts.  When I login, I don't get a panel across the bottom.  If I
>type 'panel' in an xterm I get an error message claiming that a panel is
>already running and do I want to start another one (the second one will
>not be restarted).  If I say No, I still am stuck without a panel.  If I
>say yes, it tries to launch a panel on the bottom (the panel starts up,
>I get my drawers and buttons, but no mini-commander or clock, I then get
>a bunch of GTK fatal errors in the xterm, then it dies with a core
>dump!  This only happens on my normal account.  I created another
>account last night and the new account had no problems.  How do I fix
>this problem?  I'd still like to use my original account and thought I
>could move the .gtkrc, .gnome, etc. files/folders over from the new
>account and start over.  Will this work?  Is there an easier way?

If you delete .gnome/ and .gnome_private/, Gnome will create them again with
the default settings next time it's run. This is probably easier than
copying the directories from your new account and then messing around with
premissions, etc.

>Also, in this account, how do I logout without the handy little logout
>on the gnome drawer?  I've just been using CTRL-ALT-Backspace to get
>back to the login prompt.

In an xterm, type "save-session --kill".


Michael Rogers