gnome panel problem

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 12/6/10 5:29 PM, knowtree at aloha.com wrote:
> Is there a FAQ for these questions? This excellent answer belongs in one.

There is an FAQ on the FreeBSD GNOME site, but it's not a wiki.  These
kind of dynamic tips might make good wiki fodder if someone wants to set
it up.  In the meantime, one can search mailing list archives on Google :-P.

Joe

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> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "AN" <andy at neu.net>
> Date: Mon, Dec 6, 2010 11:52 am
> Subject: gnome panel problem
> To: "Michal Varga" <varga.michal at gmail.com>
> Cc: <freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org>
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> 
> 
> 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
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