Open windows on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen

[Mark]

HI NoOp:

Thank you. It worked great!!!! Thanks again.

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 08:41 -0800, NoOp wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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