Application Startup Notify fully ignored
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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openbox (Debian) |
New
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Unknown
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openbox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Simon Quigley | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Simon Quigley |
Bug Description
[Impact]
Without this change, Lubuntu users with slow systems have no indication that a program has been started once the executable has been launched, so they might end up trying to go through diagnostics of some sort when in reality the program is just taking a while.
[Test Case]
1. Start a program on a slow system, or just make sure the program is large.
2. There should be an indication on the cursor that the program is starting up.
[Regression Potential]
The regression potential is fairly low because this dependency has been included in Debian and Ubuntu for over a year now. Where a regression could occur is if an update to libxcursor-dev is issued that is incompatible with openbox in a breaking way, and this is very unlikely in a stable release.
[Original Description]
Application Startup Notify option doesn't work and is apparently ignored: after starting any application there is no loading cursor or visual advice to tell if the application is really starting. Adding StartupNotify=true to the .desktop entry is useless, the parameter is just ignored.
This is very annoying when you use a touchpad because there is no feedback at all.
NOTES: libstartup-
Changed in openbox (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
status: | Incomplete → Fix Released |
Changed in pcmanfm (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
tags: | added: gui |
tags: | added: openbox startup |
Changed in openbox (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in pcmanfm (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in openbox (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in openbox (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in openbox (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in openbox (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
no longer affects: | pcmanfm (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | pcmanfm (Ubuntu Trusty) |
no longer affects: | pcmanfm (Ubuntu Xenial) |
description: | updated |
Changed in openbox (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in openbox (Debian): | |
status: | Fix Released → New |
It isn't problem of pcmanfm as libfm (and pcmanfm in turn) correctly prepares notification, but Openbox fails to change cursor, it's why startup notification doesn't work from any application running in Openbox. That issue was fixed in some version of Openbox, you have to upgrade or patch it. Thank you.