Re: State of docked apps when launched

"Charles philip Chan" <[email protected]> Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:13:05 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.compw.window-managers.windowmaker.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On  3 Nov 2005, [email protected] wrote:

> - the icon stays 'lighted',

You mean the icon stays white? I haven't had this happening for a long
time now and I can't remember why this happens.

> - it reverts to normal, but without the three dots (this seems to be
> the most common),

This is the normal behaviour.

> - it reverts to normal, including the three dots, but this doesn't
> seem to imply it can be launched a second time.

The app is started from a shell script, but the binary's app name
differs from the shell script. Window Maker relies on knowing the app
name to hidden the three dots. The absence of the three dots means that
the app in running.

Charles

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die_if_kernel("Whee... Hello Mr. Penguin", current->tss.kregs);
        linux-2.2.16/arch/sparc/kernel/traps.c

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