<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.6.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 04:38 -0400, Robert Jameson wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> <rj_> I have a problem, when I'm having a conversation with someone on im, i minimize the window and to my task-bar, but I don't see when they send me a new message? I must manually open the window back up <rj_> shouldn't it blink or pop up or something? <resiak> You're on Gnome or KDE, aren't you? <rj_> Gnome 2.10 <resiak> Go shout at the dudes who write the Gnome or KDE panel. They need to make their panels respond to the URGENT WM hint. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Alternatively, they could set the _NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION state, as described in the extended wm hints spec: <A HREF="http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html">http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html</A> They claim that the URGENT hint doesn't have the right semantics: <A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2003-October/msg00034.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2003-October/msg00034.html</A> : <BLOCKQUOTE> Technically, UrgencyHint and STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION cannot be the same. UrgencyHint is controlled only by the client, both set and reset, while STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION can be set by both, and is unset by the WM (KWin does so when the window gets activated). </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> What should I do? Does anyone else experience this problems? are there any work-arounds? -- Robert Jameson <<A HREF="mailto:rj@dawnshosting.com">rj@dawnshosting.com</A>> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Michael R Head <<A HREF="mailto:burner@suppressingfire.org">burner@suppressingfire.org</A>> GPG: http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/gpg.key.txt (ID 23A02B1F) </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>