On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 08:56:52PM +0200, wojtek danilo wrote: > 2012/7/29 Andre Klärner <[email protected]> > > I did it with a "(unset DISPLAY ; dropbox start ) &" in my ~/.Xsession. > > > > I don't know if this will also work with skype, but it might be worth > > trying. > > very nice idea! > It works perfectly with dropbox ut not with skype. > Anyway - thank you very much for solving half of my problem :D
Well, than that simply means that skype can't live without X11 - well, let's give it what it want. Try to use Xvfb or Xpra. With Xvfb you start an "invisble" second X11 server on e.g. :9 and run skype on it. This means you can't interact with it directly, but it won't mess up your tray. Should-Run example:"( Xvfb :9 & export DISPLAY=:9 ; skype ) &" I have not tested this, but it might work. The alternative might be xpra, it also starts another virtual X11 server, that you can attach/detach like screen. Or another solution might be Xvnc. But I am assuming a bit that all these things might cost you more CPU-time that you are willing to spend. It is also on my mind, that I don't know exactly how the pidgin and skype instances communicate together. If they use some really odd place like X11 root window properties to exchange information this won't obviously work. But I think the best solution forever would be to disable a client like skype simply. IMHO there are many more sane protocols out there to replace it. Regards, Andre -- Andre Klärner Telefon: 0351/79666546 Fax: 0351/79688547 Mobil: 0172/9838653
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