Re: startup programs priority, notification area and gnomemeeting.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:09:03AM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 07:55, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 05:04:59PM +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote:
> > > Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 14.23 schrieb Stian Jordet:
> > > > So the only problem I have is that screen 2 don't have any window
> > > > manager, I have to start it manually... That's the issue I'm looking for
> > > > a solution for.
> > >
> > > Desktop-Preferneces -> Advanced -> Session
> > >
> > > go into the »Startup-programs« tab and add sawfish with priority 50.
> > > this should work.
> >
> > BTW, i have a problem with gnomemeeting and the gnome notification area.
> > Well various problems really.
> >
> > I launch gnomemeeting minimized in the notification area, but since both
> > have the same priority, the gnomemeeting windows flashes quickly at
> > startup and at shutdown, which is not nice. I have tried modifying the
> > priority of gnomeeting to 55 or the one of the gnome notification area
> > to 45, but none of this seem to survive a relaunch of gnome.
> >
> > Should the notification area not have a higher priority than the
> > applications that will use it ?
> >
> > Also, i used to get two foot icons in the gnome splash screen, claiming
> > to be gnomemeeting, why two, i don't know. I suppose that foot icons are
> > used is a bug in gnomemeeting ?
> >
> > Now, since a few days, things went worse, now i have 6 foot icons in the
> > splash screen, and apparently gnomemeeting is called multiple times
> > (well at least two) since i get a dialog window telling me that it is
> > already running and that i should use the -c option. I didn't change
> > anything in the session preferences, and i have checked that
> > gnomemeeting only appears one time in the programs to be launched at
> > startup.
>
> You added gnome-meeting to the Startup programs ? Then it is launched
> every time you log in, plus all the one saved from the previous session.
Ok, ...
> You should just launch gnome-meeting and save the session. No adding it
> by hand in the startup programs.
Is this not a bug in the session behavior ? Or should there not be a way
to add a program to the default session ? Having to close all stuff
except the wanted ones and then saving the session does hardly seem the
most intuitive way of doing this for me.
> Same applies to sawfish BTW.
Definitively a counter-intuitive behavior.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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