wouldn't it be a good idea to add a switch for the time to wait, instead of hard coding those 10 seconds?
I opened the source and maybe a better idea is in the enclosed patch, which I could not test because of some broken dependencies on my system... read the paragraph "Timeout Functions" in the page http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/sec-mainloop.html. if that is true, then the idea of the patch is to keep trying looking for the child process until it can be found. a static variable keeps track of the amount of times that the timeout is reached and if it is more than 12 times (2 minutes) then it complains as in the original version. maybe better still to poll more often (in 10 seconds a user does have the time to see, notice and click away the child window) and more times. maybe each second, 120 times. thanks, (I depend on some wm dock apps...) Mario --- gnome-swallow-1.2/gnome-swallow.c 2006-04-27 23:08:30.000000000 +0200 +++ gnome-swallow-1.2.400265/gnome-swallow.c 2007-11-04 09:17:06.000000000 +0100 @@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ { GdkDisplay* gdkdisplay = gdk_display_get_default (); GdkScreen* gdkscreen = gdk_screen_get_default (); + static int count = 12; // max times to invoke the function struct AppletConfigure* ap = (struct AppletConfigure*)data; @@ -206,16 +207,19 @@ panel_applet_gconf_set_string(ap->applet, "applet_name", ap->applet_name, NULL); orientChanged(GTK_WIDGET(ap->applet), 0, ap); + return FALSE; // found it, remove the timeout! } else { + // no window found... + if (count--) + return TRUE; // but keep trying... GtkWidget* dialog = gtk_message_dialog_new(0, 0, GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR, GTK_BUTTONS_CLOSE, "Swallower Applet: Could not find a window named \"%s\" (ran program \"%s\")", ap->applet_name, ap->program); g_signal_connect_swapped (GTK_OBJECT(dialog), "response", G_CALLBACK(gtk_widget_destroy), GTK_OBJECT(dialog)); gtk_widget_show(dialog); + return FALSE; // remove the timeout! } - - return FALSE; } void store_filename(GtkWidget* widget, struct AppletConfigure* ap) -- in a free world, you would choose your operating system http://www.knoppix.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
