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Date:      Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:50:57 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Startup Notification?
Message-ID:  <kafseh$360$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <kafj5h$t6f$1@ger.gmane.org> <loom.20121214T190211-928@post.gmane.org>

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:09:16 +0000, jb wrote:

> Walter Hurry <walterhurry <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>> I'm running FreeBSD 9.1RC3 with LXDE and OpenBox.
>> 
>> The startup-notification port is installed (it's required by a number
>> of other ports anyway), but I don't actually see any form of visual
>> notification when opening GUI applications. For many of these (e.g.
>> lxterminal, pcmanfm) this doesn't matter, since they appear virtually
>> instantaneously, but for others (like firefox) the lack is something of
>> a nuisance.
>> 
>> Am I missing an optional port, or is there a configuration file
>> somewhere which I need to edit?
> 
> This narrative should give you some clue:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/11462
> 
> Find a file like e.g. mozilla-firefox.desktop that will look similar to
> this:
> ...
> Exec=firefox %u Icon=firefox Terminal=false Type=Application
> StartupWMClass=Firefox-bin
> MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application
> /vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;
> StartupNotify=true X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.15
> Categories=Network;WebBrowser;

Thanks, but that made no difference whatever.




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