Open windows on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen

[NoOp]

On 11/02/2008 08:37 PM, Mark wrote:
> Hi everyone:
> 
> I'm the newbie in the bunch here and everyone has been so fantastic with
> all their kind help which is very much appreciated. I have a rather
> annoying problem. Whenever I open a window or program, it appears at the
> bottom of screen minimized or on the task bar minimized. why when I go
> to click on it that it doesn't open up on the screen for me, it stead it
> just stays there at the bottom and won't pop up on the screen when I
> click on it to make it active. Only when I right click on it and choose
> always on top does it finally become active and popup to where it is
> viewable on my screen. Is there any way around that? It's really
> annoying. When I click on a window on the bottom task bar, I expect it
> to open up and not just sit there and have to go through all those extra
> steps just to get the crazy thing to open up to view it. Thank you
> everyone!
> 
> I am using a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop using Ubuntu 8.04. Thanks again.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 

You should not have to use "always on top". For some windows tabs you
may have to double-click, but in general a single click should work.
Have a look at: System|Preferences|Mouse and the Double-Click Timeout
setting. Sometimes if it is set all the way to 'Short' a window won't
open; move the slider to the right about a half inch & then test.