Re: Iceweasel (from backports) keeps busy cursor at startup
On 2010-03-22, John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 22:08 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2010-03-21, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:13:22 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 2010-03-21, Camaleón wrote:
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>> >
>> > Just creating a new launcher seems to solve the problem. You can use the
>> > same options (command: iceweasel %u, description: Web browsing... etc.)
>> >
>> > Could you please check if it also works for you?
>> >
>>
>> Yes, creating a new, minimal, .desktop file solves the problem. Here is
>> the one I used:
>>
>> [Desktop Entry]
>> Encoding=UTF-8
>> Version=1.0
>> Type=Application
>> Terminal=false
>> Name[en_GB]=iceweasl
>> Exec=/usr/bin/iceweasel
>> Icon[en_GB]=iceweasel
>> Name=iceweasl
>> Icon=iceweasel
>>
>> The browser window popped up immmediately, without the busy cursor.
>>
>> I would be interested to learn which part of the official .desktop file
>> is responsible for the behaviour you first observed.
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> We are seeing the same behavior and would very much like to solve this
> problem. I tracked down the iceweasel.desktop file
> to /usr/share/applications. I first commented out the non-language
> related items that did not appear in your .desktop file above. That did
> not fix it.
>
> I then removed all the language related entries except the default in
> case it was a bad language entry. That did not fix it.
>
> I then replaced the file with the one you give above. That did not fix
> it.
>
> Then I wondered if it was a location issue. So I placed your file in
> ~/Desktop so it showed up as a desktop icon rather than a menu icon.
> Alas that did not fix it either. At a loss for what to try next - John
>
>
Try explicitly setting StartupNotify=false in the .desktop file.
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Liam O'Toole
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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