George P Nychis schreef: > Hey, > > Whenever I restart fvwm-crystal via Crystal -> Exit -> Restart > > fvwm-crystal usually kills gaim... probably 8 out of 10 times. I'm > not sure if it is related to me having it in the tray or not, but I > have the preference set for it to be in the tray... no other apps > die, only this one, and its the only one that uses the tray. >
I've had this problem too; not with Gaim as I don't really use it, but with other apps that have a "native systray" function. Namely, Krusader, Azureus, and aMule, all of which have an optional tray icon, which remains when the application window is closed and can be used to "re-show" the app. Also, mail-notification (which is just a tray icon) seems to really get confused if I restart when it's active (there's new mail and it is displaying its icon, as opposed to when it's hidden because there's no new mail). Flatly, these apps seem to think that when you close the tray (therefore removing the tray icon, of course), that you've closed the app. It seems to me to be a failure to communicate which can't be resolved (the app expects one thing and one thing only--that the tray only closes when you're logging out of the DE, and therefore the app should be closed-- and the fact that fvwm and -crystal behave differently is simply not in the cards), but there's an outside chance that might be because apps with a native tray function just don't get the whole fvwm "Iconify" thing. I don't know if GAIM has this workaround, but for the apps I mentioned, I simply disabled the tray icon functionality, since if I minimize the app it goes to an icon right next to the tray anyway, and it's almost the same thing. But I think that the GAIM icon has more functionality (flashing and so forth), so that might not be an option. Or, of course, just close GAIM before restarting fvwm (since you know that you're going to restart, you can just shoot a note to people saying BRB or whatever), or don't restart when you've got GAIM open. Sorry not to be more help, but at least you know that it is kind of a "thing"-- you're not nuts, as it were. Holly _______________________________________________ FVWM-Crystal-users mailing list FVWM-Crystal-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/fvwm-crystal-users
