Re: [Gambas-user] DesktopWatcher doesn't watch...

2012-08-28 Thread RICHARD WALKER
Wow, thanks for the results info. I have started to look at the Desktop component implementation and I am only beginning to get a trembling feel for what it uses to do what it does. I'll study your response in greater detail but your two straws are very similar to the ones I suspect are hiding my

Re: [Gambas-user] DesktopWatcher doesn't watch...

2012-08-27 Thread Bruce
Hi Richard, I tried your program here: [System] OperatingSystem=Linux Kernel=2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs Architecture=i686 Memory=1553368 kB DistributionVendor=PCLinuxOS DistributionRelease="PCLinuxOS" Desktop=LXDE [Gambas 3] Version=3.2.90 Path=/usr/local/bin/gbx3 [Libraries] Qt4=libQtCore.so.4.8.2 GTK

Re: [Gambas-user] DesktopWatcher doesn't watch...

2012-08-27 Thread RICHARD WALKER
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Re: [Gambas-user] DesktopWatcher doesn't watch...

2012-08-27 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 28/08/2012 01:08, RICHARD WALKER a écrit : > Good evening Benoît, > No doubt you are right. I thought it might be connected with the level > of support in LXDE for xdg and the Portland project (I wish I knew > what that means) but I got the same results with other xdg compliant > desktops; IceWM

Re: [Gambas-user] DesktopWatcher doesn't watch...

2012-08-27 Thread RICHARD WALKER
Good evening Benoît, No doubt you are right. I thought it might be connected with the level of support in LXDE for xdg and the Portland project (I wish I knew what that means) but I got the same results with other xdg compliant desktops; IceWM, awesome, and a couple of others I can't remember now.

Re: [Gambas-user] DesktopWatcher doesn't watch...

2012-08-27 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 26/08/2012 21:27, RICHARD WALKER a écrit : > There is more to this problem than I first thought. It is not just > DesktopWatcher that I do not understand, but some of Desktop and > DesktopWindow too. > > I have built a quick'n'dirty test harness to display some of the > difficulties I have encou

Re: [Gambas-user] DesktopWatcher doesn't watch...

2012-08-26 Thread RICHARD WALKER
There is more to this problem than I first thought. It is not just DesktopWatcher that I do not understand, but some of Desktop and DesktopWindow too. I have built a quick'n'dirty test harness to display some of the difficulties I have encountered. It is attached. It may be simplest to list what

[Gambas-user] DesktopWatcher doesn't watch...

2012-08-25 Thread RICHARD WALKER
... or it does but it just won't tell me what it sees:-( Using Gambas 3.1.1 on Mageia 2 64-bit with desktop (LXDE) spread across two monitors. I am trying various techniques to discover if a program starts on the desktop. My latest effort tries to use a desktop watcher set up as MyDesktopWatcher