19 Apr
2023
19 Apr
'23
5:57 p.m.
On Wednesday 19 April 2023 17:21:39 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:34:00 +0000
William Morder via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
No, at least some of your memory is right, and just as sound as my own rather
fuzzy recollection of these matters.
Back when I first jumped ship from KDE, and found my way over to TDE, I did
bring up this issue, but nobody seemed to have heard of the trick, whatever
it was. For now, I just keep the "pkill ksystraycmd" command in a shell, so
that I can hit return and kill it when the systray gets too cluttered with
those ghost icons.
If I can kill them with this command, however, yet the programs still keep
working, then those ghost icons are not really essential, so I would like to
suppress them altogether.
I seem to recall that it was a line added to a bash script (maybe?), but when
somebody gave me the line, I was still very new to Linux. I had not yet
developed all my current squirrelly habits about keeping everything, no
matter how trivial it might seem, until I am sure that I cannot reuse it
somehow in a future configuration.
Maybe I will need to do some reading about dbus, as what I know there is
mostly to avoid it so that I don't mess up my stuff.
Bill
Years ago, back in the good ol' KDE3 days,
somebody gave me a command or
script or something (the memory is pretty hazy), and I put it is a shell
script or somewhere that I can find or recall now, and it went away, and
I didn't think about it again until I started running TDE a few years
ago, and it's been bugging me ever since. I know from experience that I
can make this thing go away, but I just can't remember how, aside from
constantly running pkill ksystraycmd.
Have you searched back through the archives for this list? This is ringing
some kind of very faint bell for me, and I think it may have been discussed
previously. (Even dimmer recollection suggests this might just possibly be
dbus-related. Or I might be completely off-base.)
E. Liddell