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heiowge

Since installing KDE on Mint 12, I've noticed that sometimes Firefox or Dolphin doesn't close properly.

If they are the last window open and I close them, the bar at the bottom in the panel doesn't always disappear. It stays there. If I open another app, it goes. I've noticed this often with Firefox and Dolphin, but also occasionally with VLC.

Any ideas?
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roseway · LXF regular Joined: Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:27 pm Posts: 402

I think that the application is closing OK. All that's happening is that its closure doesn't always get recognised by the panel. I see the same effect sometimes, but it's really only a tiny niggle.
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nelz · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 2:46 pm Post subject:

If you check the output from ps,

heiowge · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 3:07 pm Post subject:

Nelz, I pasted that in terminal, but I got zip back. Confused

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Ram · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 3:14 pm Post subject:

nelz · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 10:30 pm Post subject:

That means no instances of Konqueror are running, it would have output a line for each running copy (try it when Konqueror is actually running to see, then try again after quitting it).
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heiowge · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:56 pm Post subject:

I don't think I ever run it... Confused

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Ram · Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 12:11 am Post subject:

heiowge · Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 12:29 am Post subject:

Strange. I ran dolphin and did it, and got nothing back. Confused

****edit**** ...and yes, I did swap out for Konqueror in the code.
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nelz · Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 11:41 am Post subject:

My mistake, that should be "ps ax | grep blah", otherwise ps only considers programs launched from the current shell. Or you can use

heiowge · Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 11:58 am Post subject:

This is what I got...

ps ax | grep dolphin
4800 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto dolphin
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nelz · Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 1:15 pm Post subject:

Which shows that dolphin is running. What do you get when you run it after quitting dolphin but while it is still shown in the panel?
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heiowge · Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 7:17 pm Post subject:

grrr... I'm trying to do that now, but find having terminal open or opening terminal closes the offending window so I can't view the fault in action! Rolling Eyes

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roseway · LXF regular Joined: Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:27 pm Posts: 402

I think it's just a redrawing issue, so when you open a new program the panel redraws itself correctly.
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nelz · Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 8:13 pm Post subject:

I agree, but if you're really intent on showing that the program is not running when shown in the panel, run