Bug 91815

Summary: Problem starting programs which do not open a main window
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Daniel McLaury <daniel_mcl>
Component: klauncherAssignee: Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: l.lunak
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Daniel McLaury 2004-10-21 12:27:33 UTC 
Version:           3.3.0 (using KDE KDE 3.3.0)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          doesn't matter doesn't matter
OS:                Linux

So, there is a bit of a problem in KDE with starting something which does not open a main window.  For example, if my media player (noatun) is already running and I choose another mp3 to play from kfm, KDE creates a temporary window labelled "noatun" with an hourglass icon and makes the cursor into an hourglass, ostensibly waiting for a window to be created or something.  This is just a minor annoyance here, but if I use the Alt-F2 menu (or kfm I guess) to start an opengl game, which generally doesn't open a window, I get a bouncing hourglass cursor while the game is starting, which can severely mess up the graphics.  So I'd like the wait-cursor implementation to be better, or at least easily disableable.

Looking at what I just wrote, it sounds kinda incoherent.  Anyway, try starting quake 3 from kfm or the alt-f2 menu and look at what the cursor does.  It's bad.
Comment 1 Jens Dagerbo 2004-10-22 00:38:28 UTC 
Not a KDevelop issue.

Reassigning.
Comment 2 Lubos Lunak 2004-11-18 15:00:42 UTC 
You can find Quake 3's menuentry in kmenuedit and turn off launch feedback.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71056 ***
Comment 3 Daniel McLaury 2004-11-19 17:35:10 UTC 
This is a rather unsatisfying fix; it doesn't work for the ALT-F2 menu, which I use a  lot more than the start menu thingy, and it's something which is broken by default and requires heavily specialized knowledge to fix.  It seems like it'd be better to have this off by default for everything thats' not a known KDE app.