[ale] odd behavior

jim jcphil at bellsouth.net
Wed Oct 27 06:54:38 EDT 1999


I solved it by deleting the .enlightenment directory and rebuilding my menus.
Now I've got my favorite look back!

Mike Fletcher wrote:

> >>>>> "jim" == jim  <jcphil at bellsouth.net> writes:
>
>     jim> Netscape doesn't show up in any other desktops. And if I
>     jim> start it from the command line, no errors are returned. If I
>     jim> crank up the browser while offline, I get the usual error
>     jim> windows about "unknown host" but that's it.  No other part of
>     jim> the browser is visible.
>
>         Start netscape, then in a terminal window start eesh.  In eesh
> do `window_list' and look and see if netscape shows up.  I get
> something like:
>
> window_list
>  340004a : fletch at godzilla.phydeaux.org
>  44003a1 : Netscape: godzilla.phydeaux.org
>  300006b : NBC
>  24000cd : panel
>  2400066 : panel
> [...]
>
>         You can then use the win_op command to find the x,y that the
> window is located at.  In my case its window id 44003a1, so I do:
>
> win_op 44003a1 move ? ?
> window location: 10 10
>
>         Which is correct.   If the window was off the screen, one of
> those numbers might be <0 or > 1152x900 (in my case).  If it is off
> the screen, try something like:
>
> win_op 44003a1 move 0 0
>
>         And it should move to the upper left corner of whatever
> desktop it was on.  Likewise you could use `win_op id desk #' to move
> it to a specified desktop, and `win_op id area # #' to move to a
> virtual desktop area.  Control-d will exit eesh (don't type `exit'
> since that'll tell E to exit :), `help' and `help command' to get more
> information on commands or a specific command respectively.
>
> --
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