Re: Window manager interaction

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 15 Oct 2009, at 21:34, Philippe Roussel wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> When using GNUstep applications under a Gnome desktop and it's
> Metacity window manager, I often 'lose' those applications : if I
> minimize a windows, it appears in the task bar as expected but if I
> hide the application there's nothing left in the task bar. The only
> solution seems to launch the application again to get it back.
>
> I'm running with GSAppOwnsMiniwindow set to NO and GSSuppressAppIcon
> set to YES as I don't want AppIcons to appear on the desktop.
>
> Is it the intended behavior ? Did I miss something ?


The documentation says:

GSSuppressAppIcon
A boolean value, NO by default. Specifies wether the application icon  
window should not be displayed. Set to YES for background server  
applications.

I think the expectation is that, if you have set GSSuppressAppIcon to  
YES, it's because your app is not intended to appear on-screen (I  
think that's what 'background server' means), or that your window  
manager will be handling activation of the app some other way.


The other default (GSAppOwnsMiniwindow) is the one which is supposed  
to control whether miniwindows are controlled by the application or by  
the window manager, and if that's set to 'NO' then (as I understand  
it) the miniwindows should not appear on the desktop.  I'm not sure  
how well this works though.