Re: [Fwd: programs now load minimised - irritating]

[Rod Butcher <rbutcher hyenainternet com>]

Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 1/15/06, Rod Butcher <rbutcher hyenainternet com> wrote:
>
> > sorry, I figured out right after posting that this is now controlled by
> > Startup-Notify in the .desktop file. However, there does seem to be a
> > bug with adding applets, which also defaults to minimised. If we haven't
> > yet added the window list we don't get to see the add applet dialog.
> > Rod
>
>
> Startup-Notification determines whether you get a busy cursor and a
> "Starting <application>" thing in the tasklist, and helps decide
> whether the new window should be focused on launch.  But if new
> windows are being minimized, it's a bug.
>
>
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > I find that in the past week after rebuilding Gnome from cvs head, newly
> > loaded programs start minimised (i.e. they only show on the panel, which
> > has to be clicked to make the newly loaded program display itself). Is
> > this a new configurable feature or a bug ?
>
>
> Definitely a bug.  How do you reproduce?
It only seems to occur if gnome-terminal has the foreground (i.e. main 
window). Any program loaded (from menu or as an applet) will load 
minimised. This came up as I was using gnome-terminal to try to debug an 
applet).
Rod
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