Re: Weirdness with matchbox-remote -desktop

Matthew Allum <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:55:24 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.matchbox
Message-ID <[email protected]>
on Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:50:40AM -0600, Tom Hui wrote:
> Matthew,
> 
> I just took a look at mb-applet-launcher.c and it appears that there is
> a 15 second timeout if there is no CreateNotify or PropertyNotify XEvent
> sent after the application is launched.  This happens in the
> get_launch_window() function.  So, if the launched action does not
> create a new window or change the state of a window, it will wait the
> timeout 15 seconds.
> 

Aha :-)

> Would adding something like a "-nowindow" switch be appropriate or can
> you think of a more elegant solution.
> 

Are not launching a windowed application ? 

  -- Matthew