Re: Taskbar buttons for remote xterms do not appear

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 05/06/2012 05:35, David Thompson wrote:
> I upgraded Cygwin/X to XWin "1.12.1-1 built 2012-05-02"
> and now I'm seeing an annoying problem when starting
> remote xterm windows: the taskbar button for the xterm
> window does not appear until I give it focus.

Thanks for the detailed bug report.

> FWIW, I've searched the mailing lists and found this:
> 
> [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.12.0-2
> * The _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR hint is now
>   implemented in multiwindow mode
> 
> Since I'm using multi-window mode and since these are
> network based xterms coming into XWin.exe, and the taskbar
> button is not automatically showing with the xterm window,
> could this be my problem?

Indeed, it seems that this change introduced a timing window where the
skip-taskbar state of a window might not be applied correctly when the window
was first shown, and I guess remote xterms fall into this window.

I've uploaded 1.12.2-1 which hopefully contains a fix which closes this timing
window.

When it reaches the mirrors, perhaps you could try it and see if it fixes
things for you?

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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