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cairo-dock-plug-ins package

  1. Bug #1311189
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 1311189

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Bambang Pranoto (bpranoto) wrote : Re: [Cairo-dock-team] [Bug 1311189] Re: Cairo-dock buggy show desktop

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Fabounet <email address hidden> wrote:

>
> actually, that depends on the Window Manager
> I've just made a quick test, and with Metacity you get the behaviour you
> wish (the icon comes back to original when a window is unminimized)
> but with Compiz, it doesn't work like that, you stay in "show desktop" mode
> until you re-click on the icon (or change the current desktop).
>
>
No, reclick the Show Desktop icon doesn't help. The only way is to logout
and login again.

> to make some tests yourself, you can use the following command:
> "xprop -root | grep _NET_SHOWING_DESKTOP"
> which tells you if you're in "show desktop"mode or not
> use "sleep 5 && xprop -root | grep _NET_SHOWING_DESKTOP" for instance to
> trigger the command in 5 seconds, letting you the time to click on the icon
> and show a window; I think you'll find the same result as me. :-)
>
>
After the problem occurs, value of _NET_SHOWING_DESKTOP(CARDINAL) is always
1 no matter of all applications minimized or not.