[KLUG Advocacy] A User Leaving

[Bruce Smith]

Do you have the "xalf" RPM installed (CD#3)?  That seems to provide some
hourglass functionality for me.  

However it only seems to work when I launch something from the panel,
not when I double click an icon on the desktop.


> >>I just updated my Ximian GNOME packages via red-carpet and I'm getting
> >>something I've never seen before:  An hourglass in task bar when I click
> >>on an icon to start a process until the window appears.   It even
> >>appears between when evo's splash screen goes away and before the
> >>application window paints itself.
> >I have all the latest Ximian updates, and I'm not seeing any hourglass.
> >Where exactly are you seeing it?  Does the mouse pointer turn into an
> >hour glass, or does it appear somewhere else?
> 
> No the mouse pointer remains the same (which I like).  The hour glass
> shows up in the task chooser applett on the tool bar as a selector with
> the name of the application (Evolution, Terminal, etc...) and the hour
> glass as the icon.  The hour glass also appears in the focus indicator
> (top right by default) until the applications first window appears.
> > 
> >I wonder if there is a setting to turn it on somewhere . . .
> 
> Not that I did.  I had the hourglass pointer thing along time ago when
> it was in the main build,  but it went away when they removed the
> feature.  Maybe it is still floating around in gconf somewhere,  but I
> don't see anything for it in gnomecc (cursory examination).


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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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