Public bug reported: Binary package hint: skim
Skim seems to have a nasty habit of refusing to minimize to the system notifications tray. Instead, it launches itself in a detached window containing only the icon itself. This is on a 9.04 Jaunty machine, having installed the gold release a few hours ago. If I forcefully shut skim down - via the right-click context menu, killall skim, or xkill - it gets restarted automatically and again ends up in a new, detached window. If I, however, close it with alt+f4, it *disappears* from view yet runs resident. The hotkeys still work, and if I right-click skim's panel that pops up upon activating (via hotkeys) I can access the configuration window, handwriting recognition via Tomoe, etc. The icon is lost though; it's not in the systray, nor in its own window anymore. Forcefully shutting it down again via those other methods makes it spawn a new window. And yes, the System Tray Icon plugin (in skim's configuration) *is* activated. If I log out and login, or switch to a tty and restart X, or zap (after having disabled DontZap in xorg.conf), it's still detached when I've logged back in. It "fixed itself" when I rebooted a few hours ago, and then returned now and won't go away, so chances are it'll "fix itself" again if I do a proper power cycle. Which seems odd. I'm not sure how to reproduce this; I've certainly had it since Gutsy and KDE3, though I always thought it was because of Compiz, since I experienced similar behavior with Adept's Update Notification icon. (It detached itself but obediently docked with the tray if I closed it and restarted it.) I've yet to find a surefire workaround. It's something that just "happens by itself" and then just "fixes itself" after a while, as if it has to do with skim launching itself too early, before plasma has had time to draw the tray notification applet, and then after some days/weeks/months of use the system is somehow bogged down (after I installed garbage), slowing its (skim's) startup down and eliminating the issue. Alas, conjecture. skim is set to use scim-panel-kde, config module: kconfig, and to start skim automatically when KDE starts. $ sudo im-switch -l ... The system wide default is pointed by "/etc/alternatives/xinput-all_ALL" . xinput-all_ALL - status is manual. link currently points to skim ... $ uname -a Linux minidellen 2.6.30-020630rc3-generic #020630rc3 SMP Wed Apr 22 14:14:13 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux $ apt-cache policy skim kdebase-workspace-bin libplasma3 skim: Installed: 1.4.5-4ubuntu3 Candidate: 1.4.5-4ubuntu3 Version table: *** 1.4.5-4ubuntu3 0 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status kdebase-workspace-bin: Installed: 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status libplasma3: Installed: 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu5 Candidate: 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu5 Version table: *** 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu5 0 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status (kdebase-workspace-bin because that's where plasma_applet_systemtray.so is.) I'll attach a screenshot of how it looks when it's detached, as well as my /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/skim file, just incase. ** Affects: skim (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- skim doesn't always minimize to system tray https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365898 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs