Re: Newbie questions



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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