XFCE: using startup notification
I saw the option "use startup notification" for any applications I add to a launcher in the XFCE panel. I looked that up and found that "use startup notification" means "the window manager will show an hourglass while the program is loading."
The thing I don't understand yet is, why would I care about that? The only benefit I can see is that it's one way to tell whether the app is frozen (the hourglass stops spinning). I used to find that benefit in the aquarium icon that the MEPIS panel used to offer, about ten years ago: if your system ever froze, you could tell from the aquarium not moving anymore.
Besides--now that I think of it, the application I was adding to a launcher, Leafpad, runs so fast that it has no time to display an hourglass.
Last edited by newbiesforever; 04-23-2016 at 04:14 PM.
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