Startup Notification

[James Earl]

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 11:33, Danny wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Am Die, 2003-06-17 um 19.26 schrieb James Earl:
> > 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.
> 
> No, only quite new apps support startup notification. 
> Gtk2 programs do ("ldd /the/program |grep gtk" and you'll get the
> version, hopefully)...
> 
> Gtk1 doesnt, Qt < 3 doesn't, and Motif doesnt... terminal also doesnt
> and Xaw native apps neither... hmm...

Ok, that would explain the results I'm getting! :)

James