Very Computer

On iconifying a window, the window (and its icon) disappear. The
process is
still running from ps, but there is nothing in the panel bar or
desktop to access it by.

I did a deja search on this problem and found several users who had
had this
problem with GNOME. However, there was no actual answer I could use to
any of these problems:

 1. One answer said to "add the pager applet to the panel" but there
is no pager
applet i could find under Utilities.

 2. One answer said to modify configuration files, but it did not
state which configuration files.

 3. Some answers stated to use KDE.

However, I only want to use my window manager for very simple tasks,
namely
iconifying and uniconifying windows. I just don't need other themes or
in fact
any other functionality and don't want to reinstall a whole other
window manager.
Does anyone know concretely what could be causing this?

I mean I was perfectly happy with GNOME until this problem started.

I'm using MDK8, and there's an "Applets" entry in the main menu. If you
don't have that one, type "tasklist_applet" in a term. If that won't work
also, I'd assume you have not installed it, or it's having a different name
under RH (which I doubt).
HTH,
Ruediger

        Jerry