Startup Notification

James Earl jdearl at telus.net
Tue Jun 17 21:09:32 CEST 2003


On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 12:12, Danny wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Am Die, 2003-06-17 um 19.48 schrieb James Earl:
> > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 11:40, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> > > 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).
> > 
> > Ya, I think that's an excellent way to have it setup.
> > 
> > How does gnome-panel work around applications that don't support
> > startup-notification?
> 
> You mean, if you set the checkbox anyways, although app X doesnt support
> it? It just "waits" 30 sec and if it doesnt get a reply in this time, it
> just hides the wait cursor away, afaik ;)

Yes, pretty much.  Does it do the same thing on your system?





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