minimising windows

[alan2273]

SuSE 9.2 Pro.
When I click the dash to minimise the current window it appears to close the program down instead of putting an entry in the taskbar which means I have to restart the program again and i have lost all the work.
How can I get it to minimise to the taskbar again.

[babbing]

heh, that is a bit rotten :P

What window manager are you using?

[alan2273]

KDE 3.3

[trommaster]

Any specific program, or all of them?
You might find that you just don't have pager on the panel, so it doesn't show.
Is it in alt-tab?
whjat if you run 'ps x' in a terminal - does it show the program still running?

[alan2273]

All programs.
I just minimised one program to the taskbar and ran the ps x command and it was listed, does this mean it is still running?.

[trommaster]

Yep, it's still running.
You could try alt-tab to cycle through the apps, see if they are there.
If that's the case, you probably want to add the window list applet back to the panel. I'm sure a kde user can tell you how to do that, Babbing?

[babbing]

You could right click on the kicker and navagate as follows: add->Special Button-> Window list

You will be given a button to click on that will allow you to pick from any application started in that KDE session.

-Babbing

[alan2273]

Thanks babbing that did the trick. ;D