On Friday 21 April 2023 07:59:21 Michael via tde-users wrote:
this is strange, because ksystraycmd is a utility to start applications and keep them running in the systray.
I wonder why you don't find out what is starting smplayer in ksystraycmd and fix it there instead
But the applications do keep running. It's just those extra ghost icons that serve no real purpose. I don't want them.
appications register themselfs als "I have a super importenat systray icon", this not something the systray does by its self. IMO you'll have to go through the applications settings and disable systray integration.
I agree with Nik, especially in the case of SMPlayer. It's a configure option inside the app itself.
As I said earlier, I do configure some apps to dock themselves in the system tray, and I want them there. I don't want uninvited guests, nor the reduplication of those useless ghost icons.
I am pretty sure that I never deliberately configured any apps to do that, but I could be wrong. Only grep and time will tell.
Especially, as I said, when I get my systray full of half a dozen or more of them, and often they are all icons for, say, smplayer, yet they actually represent other applications.
That would be a bug.
Unless you've specifically gone into each app and manually changed its icon, which sounds really doubtful. Or you have SMPlayer configured to have multiple instances running at the same time. [Options >> Preferences
Interface, tab Instances]
If it persists, try to make a screenshot of it with 3+ duplicates. Then add a bug to bugzilla including which apps are behind the duplicite icons.
Best, Michael
Will try to get a screenshot of that behavior. It usually happens when I am in a kind of wild burst of creativity, where I am clicking to open one application or file after another. Then I might have several different items open in quick succession, but they all get tagged with the same ghost icon, whatever it may be, as that's totally random.
Bill