Frank Niessink wrote:
Hi,

of Task Coach's users reported that after switching virtual desktops
on KDE, back to the desktop where Task Coach is running, the Task Coach
window is blank. Minimizing and restoring the Task Coach window
refreshes the window and all is fine again.

Is this a known issue? Is there anything I can do to force a refresh? Is
there an event sent to the application when its desktop is activated?

Not unless the app is the foreground app on that desktop, then it will
get the normal activate event as it gets the focus again.

BTW, I don't see the blank window behavior when I try TaskCoach on KDE,
but I do have some strange behavior that took a minute or two to figure
out. When I switch to a different desktop and then return I find that
the TaskCoach window has disappeared. Apparently apps get a minimize
event when the desktops change, and you are catching that to implement
the "Hide main window when iconized" functionality

Frank Niessink wrote:
Robin Dunn:
>BTW, I don't see the blank window behavior when I try TaskCoach on
>KDE, but I do have some strange behavior that took a minute or two to
>figure out. When I switch to a different desktop and then return I
>find that the TaskCoach window has disappeared. Apparently apps get a
>minimize event when the desktops change, and you are catching that to
>implement the "Hide main window when iconized" functionality

Yeah, I've heard this one before. Any suggestion on how to distinguish
between a 'user' minimize event and a 'desktop change' minimize event?

There probably isn't a way to tell the difference. (I wasn't even aware
that window minimization was the way the desktop pager worked until now.)