Bug#505547: gnome: weird problems opening rxvt from application menu

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Nov 13 14:29:02 UTC 2008


reassign 505547 gnome-panel 2.20.3-5
retitle 505547 launching a terminal application always expects StartupNotify=true
thanks

Le jeudi 13 novembre 2008 à 13:20 +0000, Noah Slater a écrit :
> If you change the terminal application to rxvt instead of gnome-terminal and
> open it from the applications menu, an rxvt window appears instantly, but if
> move your mouse over the window decoration you get a progress pointer indicating
> that something is being done. In the window panel you see ghost window (i.e. it
> can't be maximised) that reads "Starting Terminal". This goes away after about
> 10 seconds.
> 
> I don't know what causes this, so please reassign as needed.

This is because the panel expects the terminal to understand the startup
notification protocol, which obviously rxvt doesn’t.

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