launcher feedback?

[Edscott Wilson García]

On Jue 25 Abr 2002 14:45, Kristian Rink wrote:
> Hello all,...
>
>
> ...back here after some time, trying to get my girlfriend to get used
> both with computers and with GNU/Linux / xfce, there's one question I
> would ask, here. Basically, the problem I have seen here is that
> sometimes any button from the xfce panel is clicked, excepting a
> reaction, and then, while nothing happens, is clicked again and again
> until finally some program window seems to appear. As we all know, some
> programs take quite some time to start up, especially Netscape or
> Mozilla on a P-166 machine with quite few ram. :] Anyhow: Seeing how
> things are done in KDE or GNOME, is there any way to, in xfce, have a
> feedback whenever a program is started by clicking an icon that the
> program actually *is* starting and that there is no need to start it
> again? Is there any X-only based program that serves this purpose (I
> don't want to use the xalf from GNOME right for that)? Can anyone give
> me a hint on that? :)

I think you can get better response on click from the panel if you use "focus 
follows mouse" setting for xfwm.

Edscott

>
> TIA, have a nice weekend everyone!
> Cheers,
> Kris