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- From: mlord@bmers63.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
- Subject: Re: START /MIN not working anymore (was: I'm embarassed to ask this!)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov05.152154.28077@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: BNR, Ottawa, Canada
- References: <_hg1pdf@rpi.edu> <1992Nov04.151423.3800@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1992Nov4.164157.6729@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 15:21:54 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Nov4.164157.6729@news.tu-graz.ac.at> tom@piassun1 (Tom Leitner) writes:
- ...
- >I was the one who suggested the delay. Apparently there's something
- >very peculiar going on because I left the machine alone over the weekend
- >(for the people to FTP the service pak from my machine) and one colleague
- >(with no OS/2 experiance) played with it on monday. After I rebooted on
- >tuesday I HAD EXACTLY THE SAME BEHAVIOUR OF THE START COMMAND.
- >
- >Now when I enter "START /MIN" I get a OS/2 Window. When I enter the same
- >command on my home box, I get a minimized window as it should be.
- >
- >I tried everything to get the office OS/2 box to behave like before
- >but no avail. I think it must have something to do with the permanent
- >resize feature of text windows. I.e. when you press SHIFT while resizing
- >a window, the system stores this size for newly created windows.
-
- Ahh.. at last, a clue has been identified!
-
- My system also has the PERMANENT window POSITION set, using SHIFT while moving
- around a text window. This feature, by the way, is extremely annoying..
-
- How can it be restored to the prior form, ie. auto-cascading of windows?
-
- No guesses this time, please, just tried & true methods.
-