Bug#555934: xpad: exits immediately if systray is not available right away

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 07:06:11AM +0000, Bart Martens wrote:

Do you have examples of "most applications" ?

pidgin, qbittorrent, gnote, kmix, to pick a few examples from my
(overcrowded) systray.

How would you modify
xpad_app_first_idle_check "to simply not care whether or not the icon was
embedded successfully" ?

Honestly, I don't have much of a clue. Most applications seem to handle
this case just fine, but then they don't typically require the presence
of a systray, unlike xpad.

(I myself once wrote a small crappy PyGTK app with systray support, and
eventually gave up on trying to get it right. I just use sleep to delay
the launch, to make sure the WM is done starting up.)

Do you know how to reproduce the problem ("no systray
is present") ?

Aside from running a WM without a systray? :)

With fluxbox, it's quite easy to sleep a little bit before exec'ing
the WM in ~/.fluxbox/startup.


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