minimized windows disappearing

[JOsterheim]

For no apparent reason one of our Scientific Linux boxes suddenly has the windows, when minimized, disappearing instead of sitting in the panel as usual; the panel is there, but a blank box now - nothing else is there - minimized windows or anything else. I've poked around but don't seem to see anything that would either be responsible for the behavior or a way to fix it.

Any suggestions?

Also, I have Ubuntu on two machines, Scientific Linux on 2 and SUSE 8.1 on another. The SUSE box is the only one that I can see my hard drives on. SL and Ubuntu show the floppy, the CD and the Network, but no HD. I understand mounting, but I though Ubuntu did that automatically. Since it doesn't, what would I do the get the HD's to show?

I've been using various distro's of Linux for several years now but only casually and I'm not a programer, so you might want to keep that in mind as you post a reply.

[devils casper]

For no apparent reason one of our Scientific Linux boxes suddenly has the windows, when minimized, disappearing instead of sitting in the panel as usual; the panel is there, but a blank box now - nothing else is there - minimized windows or anything else. I've poked around but don't seem to see anything that would either be responsible for the behavior or a way to fix it.

right click on Panel, select 'Add Applet to Panel'. add Task Bar or Windows List. you have to check it in the Applets list. its Task Bar in KDE and i dont remember exact name in GNOME.

Also, I have Ubuntu on two machines, Scientific Linux on 2 and SUSE 8.1 on another. The SUSE box is the only one that I can see my hard drives on. SL and Ubuntu show the floppy, the CD and the Network, but no HD. I understand mounting, but I though Ubuntu did that automatically. Since it doesn't, what would I do the get the HD's to show?

post the output of 'sudo fdisk -l' and 'df -h' commands here.

[JOsterheim]

right click on Panel, select 'Add Applet to Panel'. add Task Bar or Windows List. you have to check it in the Applets list. its Task Bar in KDE and i dont remember exact name in GNOME.

got it back


post the output of 'sudo fdisk -l' and 'df -h' commands here.

joe@ubuntu:~$ sudo df -h
Password:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 150G 3.6G 139G 3% /
tmpfs 158M 0 158M 0% /dev/shm
/dev 150G 3.6G 139G 3% /.dev
none 5.0M 2.8M 2.3M 56% /dev


joe@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Password:

Disk /dev/hda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 19860 159525418+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 19861 19929 554242+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 19861 19929 554211 82 Linux swap / Solaris

[devils casper]

output of fdisk is not showing any other harddisk or Partition. didn't you plug-in other harddisk?

[JOsterheim]

The machine has just the one disk that fdisk reports, partitioned by Ubuntu at installation. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see an issue there. The question is - why I can't I see it from within Ubuntu.

[danbuter]

Turn on the Window Selector. You can access any open/minimized window from there.

[devils casper]

The machine has just the one disk that fdisk reports, partitioned by Ubuntu at installation. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see an issue there. The question is - why I can't I see it from within Ubuntu.

did you check in Places Menu? or Open Home Folder, Places -- Computer.