Ghost applications stay on the panel ?

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Mon Jan 18 08:53:01 UTC 2010


On Saturday 16 January 2010 23:44:02 Linuxguy123 wrote:
> I'm running F12/ KDE with all the latest updates.
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Dec 21
> 06:04:56 UTC 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> $ rpm -q kdelibs
> kdelibs-4.3.4-3.fc12.i686
> 
> $ rpm -q qt
> qt-4.5.3-9.fc12.i686
> 
> 
> I am running dual displays within 1 KDE session.
> 
> I have 2 panels installed on my main display.
> 
> 1 panel is at the bottom of the display.  It has the system tray and a
> bunch of application icons
> 
> The other panel is at the top of the display.   It has a Pager and Task
> Manager Widget installed on it.
> 
> I generally have 6 to 15 applications open at one time, spread across 2
> to 5 desktops.  Typically 1 Evolution app, 1 or 2 Open Office apps, 3 to
> 5 browsers, 2 to 6 Okular apps, Eclipse, digiKam, etc.
> 
> I have my system set up to show applications in Task Manager on a
> desktop by desktop basis.
> 
> I have 2 problems:
> 
> 1) Some application icons are appearing on the taskbar for multiple
> desktops.  For example, I might open FF in Desktop 5 but an icon for it
> will appear in both Desktop 5 and Desktop 2, even though I do not have a
> FF application running in Desktop 2.
> 
> 2) When I close an application with an icon appearing on multiple
> desktops, the icon remains in the task manager and there is now way to
> get rid of it, short of ending the session.   Not a nice thing to have
> to do when one has 6 to 15 applications open.

It should be fixed now - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219415 - but this 
bug is for simple case on one desktop - maybe not for your one.

Jaroslav 

> The application seems to close properly.  It seems as though the taskbar
> isn't getting rid of the icon.
> 
> Does this happen to anyone else ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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