Re: Newbie questions
- From: Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>
- To: Mike Newman <mike greatnorthern demon co uk>
- Cc: evans ncseweb org, gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Newbie questions
- Date: Thu Sep 18 16:51:40 2003
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 13:38, Mike Newman wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 21:25, Skip Evans wrote:
>
> > 1) When I open an application, it does not create a
> > button on the toolbar below. And when I minimize the
> > application it flies off into the bottom right hand
> > corner and dissapears, apparently closing! I can't get
> > it back unless I reopen it! I've opened a shell and
> > done a ps waux | grep (user name) and apparently the
> > processes are still running, I just can't get at them
> > on my desktop.
>
> You need to right click the panel, then from the resulting menu select
> 'Add to Panel' > 'Utility' > 'Window List'. This is the applet which
> displays running tasks, and which your disappearing tasks are zooming
> down to meet!
>
> > 2) When I change the names of the workspaces on the
> > toolbar, the system does not save the new names.
>
> I don't use this feature myself, but it seems to work fine in GNOME 2.4.
> Can't help much on this I'm afraid!
>
> > 3) Lastly, I can't find in the interface where to set
> > up a samba mount to our Windows server. Is there a GUI
> > tool for this or do I need to go command prompt?
>
> Redhat 9 ships redhat-config-samba which seems to do the necessary.
Also, if you have gnome-vfs-extras, you can just open up a file browser
and go to "smb://"
--Ben
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