Re: newbie user difficulty in managing dockapp

2009-05-03 Thread Omniscient
On May 3, 5:02 pm, Pete French p...@twisted.org.uk wrote: but TimeMon has a buig in it - the first time you start it then it will not animate the icon. You need to quit it and start it a second time - the second time it works properly. I have never used AClock so I dn;t know, but maybe it has

Re: newbie user difficulty in managing dockapp

2009-05-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Omniscient wrote: On May 3, 5:02 pm, Pete French p...@twisted.org.uk wrote: but TimeMon has a buig in it - the first time you start it then it will not animate the icon. You need to quit it and start it a second time - the second time it works properly. I have never used AClock so I dn;t

Re: newbie user difficulty in managing dockapp

2009-05-03 Thread Wolfgang Lux
Pete French wrote: What is the right way to manage docapp to start after login? Using gnustep wmaker. I am trying to dock AClock TimeMon I just dock them and set the 'start when Window maker is started' option., but TimeMon has a buig in it - the first time you start it then it will not

Re: newbie user difficulty in managing dockapp

2009-05-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Wolfgang Lux wrote: This is a backend bug. Hi. By backend bug do you mean bug in AppKit or in art? If in art, I guess I can workaround it by try get backend-xlibs running. ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org

Re: newbie user difficulty in managing dockapp

2009-05-03 Thread Omniscient
On May 3, 7:51 pm, Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: what is the alternative way?     * switch to other dockapps with similar feature? (please recommend       alternative ones thanks:) I can look up application directory but       might end up using another not recommend dockapp

Re: newbie user difficulty in managing dockapp

2009-05-03 Thread Wolfgang Lux
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Wolfgang Lux wrote: This is a backend bug. Hi. By backend bug do you mean bug in AppKit or in art? If in art, I guess I can workaround it by try get backend-xlibs running. It is a bug in the window manager interface, which is shared between all backends (art, xlib,

Re: newbie user difficulty in managing dockapp

2009-05-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Omniscient wrote: Since most of them who can deal with the problem were focusing on building their own DE and they won't use Window Maker in any way either were too busy with anything else. And no matter how many NeXT zealots would say how much they love the current look, they can't help either.

Re: newbie user difficulty in managing dockapp

2009-05-03 Thread Pete French
This is a backend bug. Whatever application you start first under WindowMaker does not get a proper application menu or application icon. In fact, you can reproduce the effect for any application by setting defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSIgnoreRootOffsets YES I don't know if this is a

Re: newbie user difficulty in managing dockapp

2009-05-03 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Pete French wrote: What is the right way to manage docapp to start after login? Using gnustep wmaker. I am trying to dock AClock TimeMon I just dock them and set the 'start when Window maker is started' option., but TimeMon has a buig in it - the first time you start it then it

Re: newbie user difficulty in managing dockapp

2009-05-03 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Pete French wrote: I'm not aware of this bug and I have TimeMon running on several different architectures... Under WindowMaker ? I havent tried it on any other WM's. My setup is FreeBSD. It doesnt have to be autolaunched either - you click it to start it up, and it starts, but the

Re: newbie user difficulty in managing dockapp

2009-05-03 Thread Pete French
I tried right now the following, under Linux, x86, WindowMaker, art backend. - openapp TimeMon - drag it into WindowMaker's dock - quit ...so at this point you have run it once and quit... - double click on the icon with three dots that remained in the dock - enjoy TimeMon in all its

Re: newbie user difficulty in managing dockapp

2009-05-03 Thread Wolfgang Lux
Pete French wrote: Please do. This used to work OK, but it stopped a while ago - it's not irritating enough that I ever got around to ooking at it in detail, but if it could be reported so it is in the bug system that would be gerat, and you seem to have more of a clue about it than I do ;)

newbie user difficulty in managing dockapp

2009-05-02 Thread Zhang Weiwu
What is the right way to manage docapp to start after login? Using gnustep wmaker. I am trying to dock AClock TimeMon Traditional way is to customize .Xsession. It doesn't work. If I start AClock after logged in, it has a single animated application icon which is what I need. If I start it