Maximise and minimise !

[Rodhill]

Hi, I believe this will be a simple problem to sort! When I have any application open e.g. Firefox I don't see anyway of reducing the application to the taskbar. I have to go to the bottom of the screen and open the properties and click on ' minimize' to reduce it. I used to see the icons at the top to minimise and maximise but they aren't there now. I would be grateful for any help:confused:

Rod

[BluntBox]

Are you using Emerald?

Do you have window decorations at all? Titlebar with window name, and other buttons like close and maximise.

[Rodhill]

Hi I installed emerald and re-booted but this made no difference:( If for e.g. I have a word document open I have to go to the bottom of the screen where the name will be in a box on the panel, I then have to right click on it and select minimise. I would like the the mini and maxi icons showing at the top to do this but where are they?

[russo.mic]

I'm willing to bet your not running any window decorator. Try running metacity from a terminal and seeing the output. It should start upon logon, unless you've installed emerald. in that case, try running emerald from a terminal.

Good Luck!

Russo

[Rodhill]

Hi Russo,
I'll try that - because I'm a newby could you give me the command line or just install it from a repositary?

Rod