RE: Gnewbie questions

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

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Gregory Leblanc
Concordia University
Network Support Specialist


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric W. Sink [mailto:eric@abisource.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 8:17 AM
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Gnewbie questions
> 
> 
> GNOME looks cool.  I just installed RH6 on my desktop system
> and I'm favorably impressed.
> 
> However, two things are driving me nuts:
> 
> 1.  There are icons preinstalled on my desktop which launch
>         URLs (www.redhat.com, for example).  This behavior is much
>         like the Internet shortcuts available in Windoze, but:
> 
>         How do I create my own?  I have looked EVERYWHERE I could
>         think of.  They appear to be stored in ~/.gnome-desktop and
>         referenced in a file called metadata.db in ~/.gnome but
>         I can't figure out how to make them work.  I added a file
>         to ~/.gnome-desktop which used a format just like the
>         existing ones there (RHcom), and did a Rescan.  The resulting
>         icon doesn't seem to know that it's a URL.
> 
> 2.  When I click on one of the windows listed in the task list
>         in the pager in the panel at the bottom of my screen, I
>         keep expecting that window to be raised and receive the
>         focus.  It doesn't.  Here again, I spent a non-trivial
>         amount of time looking for an answer to this problem, and
>         I can't find it.  I played with all of the settings for
>         enlightenment, and nothing mattered.  Any clues?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any pointers to relevant info about these
> two problems.
> 
> BTW, is the archive of this email list available on the web
> somewhere?  The list server's way of accessing the archive is
> incredibly tedious:
> 
> egrep -i focus latest/*
> BEGIN---------------cut here------------------
> ../.bin/arch_retrieve: /bin/nice: Argument list too long
> END-----------------cut here------------------
> 
> -- 
> Eric W. Sink, Software Craftsman
> eric@abisource.com
> 
> 
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