Re: App Wrappers and GWorkspace Dock

[Wolfgang Lux]

Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> the GWorkspace Dock tries to mimick the behaviour of the WindowMaker Dock: 
> three small dots indicate an application which is not running, no dots, mean 
> a running app (and theoretically, one dot means a hidden one).
> 
> This works fine, but I noticed that with app-wrappers, it doesn't: launching 
> an app-wrapper (not from the dock, but with openapp or with double-click on 
> its icon in a viewer) make the icon appear with three dots in the Dock but 
> the dots never go away.
> 
> I wonder if there is a way to make a smarter app-wrapper or have GWorkspace 
> get the running information better?

You might write a little tool to send fake distributed notifications that the 
external application has launched or terminated and call that tool from within 
the shell script in the AppWrapper.

Wolfgang