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

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Thank you Bruce,

but on my desktop, this has no effect. I tried it with the Gambas icon, 
because Gambas will take some three seconds to start. No reaction, even 
after a re-login.

Regards
Rolf


Am 20.02.19 um 10:02 schrieb Bruce:
> In Mate (if you are trying to start the program from a desktop icon or a 
> menu item then) the
>      [Desktop Entry]
>      StartupNotify=true
> entry in the .desktop file will add a totally annoying entry in the 
> taskbar telling you that the program is starting.
> I know this because:
> a) it persists "long" after the program has started and the gui is ready 
> to use and
> b) I have spent months trying to get rid of it.
> 
> hth
> b
> 
> On 20/2/19 2:39 am, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> Le 19/02/2019 à 16:34, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
>>>
>>> What console program would give a reaction on the desktop so I can 
>>> check? Hm... Give me an idea please
>>>
>>> But you might be right, I have a program here that runs with Java, 
>>> and it doesn't produce a wait mouse icon too. As it is rather slow on 
>>> start, this is especially annoying as you don't know if it starts or 
>>> simply ignores you.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Rolf
>>>
>>
>> Run that shell script:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> sleep 5
>> notify-send "Hello there!"
>>
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