Excerpts from Eric Abrahamsen's message of Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:56 +0800:
I've got some applications that are run at startup, including Skype. Under gnome (or do I mean metacity?) Skype shows up only in the system tray, no window. Under xmonad, Skype runs (if someone calls me a floating window appears), but since it has no window I seem to have no means of interacting with it. Is there some way I can call it up? Or at worst, have it start with an actual window?
I'm trying to get a handle on the different "levels" that xmonad can run at: either within gnome, or instead of gnome... is that right? Currently I start out by selecting xmonad as my session at the gdm login page, and the operative file is /usr/share/xsessions/xmonad.desktop, rather than /usr/share/applications/xmonad.desktop.
Anyway, any pointers (either purely practical, or more conceptual) would be welcome!
Hi Eric, I use trayer [0] - it's a tiny application which I start from my .xinitrc. It holds Skypes and Pidgin's tray icons. I believe there must be a package for Ubuntu. Another topic is how to handle messengers' body list and other windows. People mostly use IM layout. Cheers, Sergey [0] http://download.gna.org/fvwm-crystal/