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kuky

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Posted: July 09 2006,11:27

hello to all ¡¡

when i change of dsl ver 2.4 to 3.0.1 i notice that in a new installation to hard drive i have problems with the saved config of a wireless card (in ver 2.4 it is ok between starts) in ver 3.0.1 i have to add the insmod files of the wlan to opt/bottocal.sh and after make a ifconfig and iwconfig lines in aterm o net config of panel control..

if i use iwconfing (iwlan) of panel control to make myiwconfig.sh it is only with option managed ... ?

who is new in ver 3.0.1 ?

knix

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Posted: July 11 2006,19:00

Hi,

I just discovered an issue with fluxbox configuration: If you deselect the option "Use Icons" via fluxbox menu "Desktop -> Configuration -> Use Icons", minimized windows do not show up in the task bar at the bottom of the screen, and it not self explaining how to open these windows again (left click on "Workspace X"-> Icons). Small cause, great effect!

First I assumed my processes were terminated after minimizing, but after some research I found the real cause in .fluxbox/init: Option "session.iconbar" must not be false.

If session.iconbar is false, only the active window is shown in the taskbar. If it is true, all minimized windows are shown.

Maybe somebody by chance stepped into the same trap.
Suggestion: Remove the selection "Use Icons" from DSL menu.

BTW: Anything works great, even with persistent opt (which I just removed after the posts from the last days).

knix

mikshaw

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Posted: July 11 2006,19:16

This is not a bug, and it is not something that can be removed from the menu without changing the Fluxbox sourcecode (look at the fluxbox menu file and you'll see it is a part of the hard-coded "[config]" menu item).

This is a Fluxbox feature which toggles the use of iconified windows (not the desktop icons supplied by xtdesk). These iconified windows ARE the minimized windows, so the "Use Icons" toggle is doing precisely what it is meant to do.

If you want to disable desktop icons, you can do it with the icon tool, or change "icons: 1" to "icons: 0" in /home/dsl/.desktop

Maybe a suggestion could instead be changing the label "Configuration" to "Fluxbox Configuration".

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knix

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Posted: July 12 2006,10:42

Thank you for your answer. The term "icon" usually means "small pictures", obviously fluxbox uses its own terminology. But this is probably well documented. My problem that I did not yet read the fluxbox manual.
I agree with your suggestion.

mikshaw

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Posted: July 12 2006,15:12

I can't be entirely sure about this, but i believe the terms "icon" and "iconified window" have been in use in several window managers for much longer than Fluxbox has been in existence. Some of these window managers actually create "small pictures" on the desktop when a window is minimized (iconified). Click the icon and your window is restored. Others, such as blackbox or fluxbox, simply create a text pointer to the iconified window, and they tuck that pointer away in a discreet, out-of-the-way place (middle-click) so it will not be a visual distraction.

This is just one of those times when terminology used in one popular system causes new users of a different system to expect same terms to mean the same thing. But if you consider the origins of the word, an icon is simply a placeholder or representation of something else. It could be an image, or it could be a text label, or it could be something entirely different.

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