Re: [Pan-users] Pan doesn't usually minimize to system tray

[Duncan]

Duncan posted on Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:19:42 +0000 as excerpted:

> 3) For pan's irregular behavior closing the main pan window via tray
> icon when the window is open, the explanation is simple.  It depends on
> whether that window is active (has focus) or not.  If pan's main window
> has focus,
> clicking the tray icon will close it.  If another window has focus,
> unfortunately, clicking the tray icon does nothing.
> 
> This should explain your 5-10% reliability factor.  Very likely, pan's
> active when it works, some other window is active when it doesn't.

Hmm, this is what I concluded when I looked at the problem some years 
ago, but if it ever was correct, it doesn't seem to be entirely correct 
now.

If it was simply focus, with pan's window not shown, simply clicking the 
tray icon twice should show the window and then close it again, and while 
it does show as expected on the first click, the second doesn't hide it 
again.  That despite the fact that if I hit tab, I can see the focus 
indicator change in the pan window, so it obviously has focus.

In fact, I can't seem to make the pan window close from the tray icon now 
at all, 100% broken, tho as you (OP) indicate, it did used to work a 
small share of the time.

That is very likely due to kwin changes between the kwin I was running 
back then (presumably some kde4 or even kde3 version) and the current 
kwin (live-git version) in plasma5, possibly coupled with the fact that 
my systray is on a plasma popout (aka autohide) panel, that pops out over 
an always running superkaramba system monitor window at the bottom right 
1/6 of my monitor (bottom half, right third, 1280x1080 px, 1/6 of the 4K 
3840x2160 resolution), while with no other windows open, pan opens up at 
the top left (with a window rule also creating it at 1/6, 1280x1080, 
size).

So here at least, the close-to-tray-icon functionality has gone from 
unreliable, to as best I can tell, 100% reliably broken, doesn't work at 
all.

Of course that doesn't change the problem, or that I'd be thrilled if 
someone with the necessary coding skills could provide a patch to make it 
work properly. =:^)

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