[xmonad] More trouble with KDE apps

Dominik Bruhn dominik at dbruhn.de
Tue Jun 9 04:56:51 EDT 2009


Hy John,
what tray-application are you using? Gnome-Panel and a Tray-Applet? Trayer?

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 10:12:34PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> Thomas Friedrich wrote:
> > I had the same issue with Amorak.  You have to change some preference in 
> > the Amorak menu.  Some box that you have to de-tick, restart Amorak and 
> > the the window with the tray-icon is gone.  I can't recall where exactly 
> > it was, but I know its there.
> 
> Yes, I can make the tray icon go away, but that's not what I want
> either.  I want the try icon to *work* and live in the tray like it's
> supposed to, and I haven't found an option for that.
> 
> -- John
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > John Goerzen wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> I wrote a couple of weeks ago that kpowermon opened a full window with
> >> its icon, rather than going in the tray.
> >>
> >> That was annoying, but today I discover Amarok is doing the same
> >> thing.  That's MORE annoying, because I really want to use it.  So it
> >> opens a full window with junk in it, except the center, which has its
> >> small tray-sized icon.  This in additional to its regular window, of
> >> course.
> >>
> >> Any ideas what to do about this?  This is KDE 4.  The majority of apps
> >> work just fine, both KDE and Gnome, but a few are misbehaving
> >> strangely like this.  Again, I did not have the problem before
> >> switching to xmonad.  I am using the KDE configs in xmonad.
> >>
> >> -- John
-- 
Dominik Bruhn
mailto: dominik at dbruhn.de
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