I've been irritated by something for a while now but only as a consequence of a complete rebuild of my system (the upside of a hardware failure, I guess. Or is that that the downside, nevermind :-) have I determined that it's somehow related to fvwm.
After installing Ubuntu (6.06 this time), the first thing I do is
delete the bottom panel and move the top panel down to the bottom. I
also increase the number of desktops in the workspace applet from four
to six.
In the course of getting things setup, I had reason to reboot a couple
of times and noticed that these changes "stuck". They never had
before; each time I logged in, the "bottom" panel would be on the top
and the workspace applet would show four desktops.
As soon as I was done rebooting I installed the one true window
manager, fvwm. All was swell after the normal cursing to get Gnome to
save that setting across logins.
But now I see that I'm back where I started wrt the panel.
When I login, the panel is on the top. If I check it's properties it
says it's orientation is "Bottom", but it's not. So I set it to top,
then set it to bottom again, and it moves to the right place. And the
workspace applet shows four desktops instead of six, so I use it's
properties to change that too.
It's not a bit deal, but it's annoying. I have no idea where the
problem is, but fvwm is definitely part of it.
I suppose if I had any sense I'd just delete the bottom panel too and
use fvwm features for the stuff that's down there. Maybe I will, but I
felt obligated to at least report the bug :-)
Be seeing you,
norm
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