Startup Notification

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Tue, 17, Jun 2003, James Earl wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:58, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> > On 2003.06.17 18:46, James Earl wrote:
> > > What is the status on startup notification support? Is it supposed to
> > > work?
> > 
> > It works fine. Just install startup-notification and recompile the 
> > panel and the window manager (you may need to check if configure was 
> > able to recognize startup-notification library on your system).
> 
> Thanks, does startup-notification work with any application?  I think I
> may be having a problem with it.  configure detects the
> startup-notification-1.0 libraries just fine.  I check "Use startup
> notification" on the Change item dialog.  When I click on the
> application, it loads up normally, but in addition the hour glass mouse
> icon stays on for about 30 seconds or so, and the application doesn't
> show up in the taskbar until it has loaded.

Currently only Gtk2 apps supports the startup-notification protocol. Thats
why startup-notification is optional (in that you need to check a check
box to use it).

Benedikt

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