Re: app icon weirdness

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> Message: 2
> From: "Russell Clarke" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:18:33 +0100
> Subject: [Zaurus-devel] Application exit problem
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> 	I'm having a weird problem with my app. I need to
> run it from a shell
> script in order to set an environment variable, so
> my .desktop file in
> /home/QtPalmtop/apps/Applications contains the line
> "Exec=myapp.sh", and the
> shell script (in /home/QtPalmtop/bin) looks like
> this:
> 
> export MY_VAR="important environment variable"
> myapp
> exit
> 
> 	What happens is: I run the app, and exit normally. 
> I then tap the icon to
> run it again.  This time, however, the app does not
> run, but its icon
> appears in the taskbar and will remain there,
> whatever I do, until I reset
> Qtopia.  Things appear to work as normal at this
> point, with the following
> exceptions:
> 
> - if I start my app, or click on its taskbar icon,
> it launches, but a second
> icon appears in the taskbar.
> - if I start any other app, upon exiting it, my app
> will immediately launch
> again.
> 
> 	I have done a few experiments and found that this
> behaviour will occur for
> any app (e.g. sysinfo, addressbook) that is started
> through a shell script
> in this way.  It happens on the SL-A300 as well as
> the SL-5500.  I have also
> discovered that the system passes two parameters to
> the script, "-qcop
> /tmp/qcop-msg-myapp.sh", but forwarding those on to
> the app itself makes no
> difference, whether or not I trim off the ".sh"
> (i.e. "myapp -qcop
> /tmp/qcop-msg-myapp").
> 
> 	As you can probably tell, I'm pretty new to Zaurus
> development.  Is there
> anyone out there who can guess what's going on here,
> or has had the same
> problem?
> 
> --
> Russell Clarke
> Picsel Technologies Ltd
> 
>

I have had the same problem, albeit with a python+qt
program I wrote. The times I've noticed happening are
when I accidently (and lightly) tap the desktop icon
of my program. Nothing happens but there's the little
program logo in the task bar. I start my program after
this has happened, then quit it, and immediately the
program pops up again. Weird. 

--Ilan Volow




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