severity 445899 wishlist thanks Roberto scrisse:
> Unfortunately, it appears that unless your desktop has a notification > area (like GNOME), then istanbul is next to useless. That's true. It was designed on the top of Free Desktop systemtray spec [1]. It is even stated in the long description, so I hope it isn't a surprise for new user. > I use WindowMaker and I dislike having to switch to GNOME just to > record my desktop with istanbul. It would be quite nice if it > included a command-line option, like "--record-now" that would allow > the user to run it and have it start recording right away. I'm not > sure how you would get it to stop, perhaps have the user return the > console where it was run and hit Ctrl-C (the program can intercept > the signal). This was already discussed some time ago in bug #351233 [2], and upstream told me he isn't interested in adding support for it. >From my side, I can tell you to install an external panel (like fbpanel, perlpanel, pypanel) for your WM. Maybe should I add a Suggest: line for them? > Regards, > Roberto Ciao, Luca [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-0.2.html [2] http://bugs.debian.org/351233 -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Luca Bruno : :' : The Universal O.S. | luca.br(AT)uno.it `. `'` | GPG Key ID: 3BFB9FB3 `- http://www.debian.org | Proud Debian GNU/Linux User
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