On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:11:33PM -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 16:01 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:31:39PM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 12:16 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:06:28AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:33 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > > > > > Suggestions welcome. > > > > > > > > > > Add a Notification Area to your panel, or look there if you already have > > > > > one. > > > > > > > > OK, done that. Now what? > > > > > > > > Nothing happens there when I try to start pidgin. What should I be seeing? > > > > > > A new icon should appear in the Notification Area when you start pidgin. > > > Clicking on it will show the Buddy List. > > > > Ah. there's already one in the top panel. So I see a strange little icon > > there that says it's for pidgin, so when I click that the buddy list > > opens up. which is fine, thanks for pointing me to it. But I'm curios > > how it got into that state where it doesn't open. I'm sure I've not done > > anything to change it. > ---- > I believe that is the intended behavior - that you can have pidgin > running and the only evidence is the 'status tray' when pidgin is > running in a minimal state and from which you can open various windows > back up. Sounds reasonable. but that's not the way it has worked here in the past. Thanks for the tip! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080630/3f48e3d5/attachment-0005.sig>