[openbox] ob 3.995, Gkrellm, xfce4-panel, and fbpager

[Peter N Spotts]

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 18:36 -0400, Dana Jansens wrote:
> On 5/30/07, Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> wrote:
> > On 5/30/07, Peter N Spotts <pspotts at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 17:34 -0400, Keith W wrote:
> > > > > > On 5/30/07, Peter N Spotts <pspotts at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > > > > > > Folks,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > This may be the wrong house to visit on this topic, but I'll try anyway.
> > > > > > > I'm running the latest, greatest prerelease of OB3.4 on Xubuntu 7.04.
> > > > > > > I've noticed that when Gkrellm is configured to remain hidden on
> > > > > > > fbpanel's task bar, it doesn't. It shows up as a task. Now, when I run
> > > >
> > > > Ya I noticed this sometime around the first 3.4 prerelease.  Gkrellm
> > > > doesn't "skip pager" or "skip tasklist" when it is configured to do
> > > > so, but the workaround is to do it via an <application> section in
> > > > your rc.xml.
> > >
> > > Well, lookie there. They even have the entry ready to go for me. All I
> > > have to do is uncomment!
> >
> > Fwiw I got gkrellm to work.  There are all kinds of more bugs in it,
> > but this is the difference from Openbox 3.3
> >
> > In winops-x11.c, they make this XSendEvent with the wrong mask. It
> > should be as it is below:
> >
> > XSendEvent(GDK_DISPLAY(), GDK_ROOT_WINDOW(),
> >                    False,
> > SubstructureNotifyMask|SubstructureRedirectMask, &xev);
> >
> > as per http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.4.html#id2453413
> >
> > They use only SubstructureNotifyMask.
> 
> I forgot to mention, if you could pass that along to the gkrellm
> people you've been talking to, that'd be great.

Dana, 

I just passed it along; and I edited the *.c file to make the change you
indicated, recompiled, and reinstalled. All is now right with the
world...

Thanks again,

Pete
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