Re: A Violent Realisation [Was: Preferences]

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms 1407 org> writes:
> On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 14:12, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > That's a bug in gkrellm; gkrellm should be fixed, it should not be
> > papered over with dumb window manager options.
> 
> huh? it worked quite nicely in gnome 1.4.x
> in my machine the only thing that changed was going to gnome2 and this
> was gone, so it doesn't seem like a gkrellm problem, at firt sight.
> I still haven't had the time to find wheater it was a sawfish, gnome2 or
> tasklist applet bug, which I wanted to do before filing it as a bug.
> 

gkrellm needs to set the _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR hint, or set the
_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK semantic type, or probably both. If it does
one of those, then the tasklist is broken. If it doesn't, then gkrellm
is broken.

Havoc