On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 00:47:49 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Duncan posted on Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:19:42 +0000 as excerpted: > >> 3) For pan's irregular behavior closing the main pan window via tray >> icon when the window is open, the explanation is simple. It depends on >> whether that window is active (has focus) or not. If pan's main window >> has focus, >> clicking the tray icon will close it. If another window has focus, >> unfortunately, clicking the tray icon does nothing. >> >> This should explain your 5-10% reliability factor. Very likely, pan's >> active when it works, some other window is active when it doesn't. > > Hmm, this is what I concluded when I looked at the problem some years > ago, but if it ever was correct, it doesn't seem to be entirely correct > now. > > If it was simply focus, with pan's window not shown, simply clicking the > tray icon twice should show the window and then close it again, and > while it does show as expected on the first click, the second doesn't > hide it again. That despite the fact that if I hit tab, I can see the > focus indicator change in the pan window, so it obviously has focus. > > In fact, I can't seem to make the pan window close from the tray icon > now at all, 100% broken, tho as you (OP) indicate, it did used to work a > small share of the time. > > That is very likely due to kwin changes between the kwin I was running > back then (presumably some kde4 or even kde3 version) and the current > kwin (live-git version) in plasma5, possibly coupled with the fact that > my systray is on a plasma popout (aka autohide) panel, that pops out > over an always running superkaramba system monitor window at the bottom > right 1/6 of my monitor (bottom half, right third, 1280x1080 px, 1/6 of > the 4K 3840x2160 resolution), while with no other windows open, pan > opens up at the top left (with a window rule also creating it at 1/6, > 1280x1080, size). > > So here at least, the close-to-tray-icon functionality has gone from > unreliable, to as best I can tell, 100% reliably broken, doesn't work at > all. > > Of course that doesn't change the problem, or that I'd be thrilled if > someone with the necessary coding skills could provide a patch to make > it work properly. =:^)
I found out why it works sometimes. You can't maximize Pan, or it won't work. The only thing is focused, non-maximized, then selecting the icon in the system tray, not actually selecting to minimize. :( _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
