[Gambas-user] Question: Wait-sign on start

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 12/02/2019 à 18:36, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
> Under Ubuntu Mate I don't get a Wait mouse icon when I start a Gambas 
> program. Sometimes I am too hasty and don't doubleclick at one spot, so 
> it doesn't start the program. But sometimes it just starts a bit more 
> slowly, so when I'm nervous I start it twice. You know what I mean... :)
> 
> Is it possible to get a Wait mouse icon on start, or is it a drawback of 
> the interpreter which can't be changed?
> 
> I know KDE has an option to set a jumping mouse on any doubleclick of 
> some icon on the desktop, but in Mate other programs (those which are 
> binaries) have it too.
> 
> Regards
> Rolf
> 

The "wait mouse icon" is managed by your desktop. Running Gambas on KDE 
displays it for example (it's a wait mouse icon and a fake taskbar entry 
with a rolling animation).

This wait mouse icon is based on some tricks done by the desktop.

I guess that the desktop displays the wait mouse icon until the first 
application appears.

But I don't know why it does not work with Mate.

Here is an assumption: Mate thinks that the Gambas program is a console 
program, and so does not display any wait icon.

Another assumption: Mate waits for a DBus registration, and Gambas does 
not register to the DBus bus.

Can you try to make an icon for a console program on Mate, and see if 
you have the wait mouse icon?

-- 
Benoît Minisini