disappearing window

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: disappearing window
started by: rhackenb

Posted by rhackenb on Feb. 18 2004,21:05

When I click on the underscore ('_') symbol up in the upper right hand corner of any window, it should make the window go to the bar at the bottom of the screen. Instead, it seems to kill the window just as the 'X' is supposed to do. Once I click on the '_', I can't find the app anywhere. It doesn't matter if it is dillo, an xterm or anthing else.

Any suggestions?

-- bob

Posted by Modrak on Feb. 18 2004,21:23

Look down on the gray panel

Posted by rhackenb on Feb. 24 2004,20:42

That was the place where I expected it to be but there is no indication of it.

An example of this is where I brought up Scite and then iconitied it, nothing new appears in the area at the bottom. In an xterm I did 'ps aux | grep scite' and I can see that the process is indeed still running. Could X be installed incorrectly?

-- bob

Posted by libretto on Feb. 24 2004,21:02

I agree with Modrak any minimised applications should be on the bar at the bottom. Try clicking on the arrows on the right hand end of the bar, this (I beleive) should cycle through any programs presently on that desktop.

Posted by Modrak on Feb. 24 2004,21:04

Yes thats right...cycle by the arows (the panel is only for one app)

Posted by Rapidweather on Feb. 24 2004,23:55

I have no idea why this is happening to you, I am using 0.5.3.1 and also 6.0 and do not have this occur.
I do have this related problem, however:
I cannot resize windows, or drag them around with the titlebar. Only happens on one machine, where I have a serial mouse. I don't have a ps-2 mouse port, or a USB port, so I am stuck with a serial mouse. I think they call this a bus mouse, too.
Anyway, I can open a rxvt terminal, and type "mouseconfig", and get all kinds of choices to set up the mouse. This won't work, apparently, in DSL, and we use the choices given at bootup of DSL.
The problem may be related to the mouse setup on this one machine.
If I try and drag the window around, then the open window "flashes" or
something like that, and won't move.
I do have a working mouse, it just cannot do everything one usually gets to do on a Linux or DSL installation. I get along with it, however.
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We need more choices at bootup of DSL, to allow us to pick all of the mouse selections offered by mouseconfig.
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There is the possibility that there is a Knoppix cheatcode for it, but I have not found it.
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Also, I cannot "select text" with the mouse, for instance if I wanted to
select part of this post, I cannot.
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I am assuming this is all mouse driver related, and if I could select the correct driver for my mouse in DSL, then all would be fine.
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Posted by rhackenb on Feb. 25 2004,12:37

I see the right and left scroll arrow at the bottom. On the left they let me scroll to different workspaces and that works fine. However, the ones on the right do not scroll to anything that has been iconified. It only lets me jump from window to window if they are open.

Oh well. I guess I will do a reinstall.

Posted by Fickenaze on Mar. 16 2004,05:59

I have a similar problem. Install went fine, connected to the internet without trouble... tried to look at a few sites and the window closed on me. Tried a few other thing and the windows just closed on me for no apparent reason. Love the look and feel of DSL. Any ideas?

Posted by Rapidweather on Mar. 16 2004,13:41

Maybe not enough ram?

Posted by Doriath on Mar. 16 2004,17:35

Yeah, it's very possible... when you have e.g. 32 megs and no swap file (swap file usage is shown by the gold small stripe in the left bottom corner when you "enhance" your desktop) everything just dissapears..

Posted by Modrak on Mar. 16 2004,20:55

Yes, my noty (P166MMX,32MB ram) must have swap...if you iconify that's the first app to kill when no RAM.
I think old computers haven't got PS/2 or USB and the also have small RAM :-)))))

Posted by Nassho on Mar. 17 2004,02:00

When you iconify a window, you can access it by clicking the middle button in the desktop. It will then appear a workspace menu. The last item is "Icons", there you will find a submenu with all the iconized windows.
Sorry about my english... this is from Argentina.

Nassho
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Keep on doing things like DSL!

Posted by Nassho on Mar. 17 2004,02:07

Quote (Guest @ Mar. 16 2004,12:35)

When you iconify a window you can access it by clicking the middle mouse button. You'll see this way the "Workspaces" menu. The last item of this menu is "Icons". There you'll find all the iconified windows.

Nassho
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From Argentina... keep on doing thing like DSL!