suspend/hibernate support in xfce4-session

Josh Saddler nightmorph at gentoo.org
Sun Nov 2 21:21:05 CET 2008


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:45:34 +0100 jp.guillemin wrote:
>> In fact , it wouldn't hurt anyone imho.
> 
> Actually, it would.  There are still applications out there that have
> system tray icons that don't respond well to the system tray
> disappearing.  Quitting the panel on suspend would likely cause
> problems for those apps.  Try to think about other possible
> side-effects of making crappy workarounds -- these kinds of things
> *always* happen when you do that.

I think wicd (http://wicd.sourceforge.net) is one of the apps that falls
under this category, and you bet it's used by lots of Xfce users.
Possibly it would also not be very nice to some of the Bluetooth apps I
have installed that need to launch an applet to do their thing.

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