On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:13:06PM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Since some time (I think since firefox 3), when I launch firefox using > the button in kde's menu, I get two "Mozilla firefox" references in the > task bar, one of which with the turning hourglass. Then, the main window > of firefox appears. The bouncing firefox icon continues to be near the > pointer arrow. After say 10 or 15 seconds, the bouncing icon and the > taskbar reference with the turning hourglass disappear, and I'm left > with only one (as should be in the first place imho). The aplication > associated with the kde menu button is "/usr/bin/firefox %U" (I tried > removing the %U, no difference).
Mozilla-firefox does have a startup-notification use flag, do you have it turned on? > If I run /usr/bin/firefox from the command line, everything is fine (ie, > a single reference in the task bar). Well, kde doesn't know that you are starting an app, so there's no startup-notification magic involved ;) > > Anyone else has seen this? Kde version 3.5.9. > Not a big problem, but I'm just curious. yoyo