Desktop app maintainers: Please check for StartupNotify=true

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Mon Mar 15 00:59:02 UTC 2010


On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Victor Vasilyev
<Victor.Vasilyev at sun.com> wrote:
>
> FYI When the StartupNotify=true was specified in the desktop file of the
> NetBeans I've seen bugs in launching of the NetBeans' child processes
> (e.g FireFox [3]) due to the DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID environment variable. It
> was fixed in the NetBeans launcher by a patch [4] according to
> recommendations of the Startup Notification Protocol Specification.

Swing needs to clear the environment variable.  See:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/gdk/x11/gdkdisplay-x11.c#n1015


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