[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] IT2006 no taskmanager icon for SDL app, worked in IT2005

From: Frantisek Dufka dufkaf at seznam.cz
Date: Mon Jun 12 12:11:05 EEST 2006
Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Well in older system it was not essential if you kept the name of
>> application same as the name of desktop file or Exec field or whatever.
>> It simply worked without it.
> 
> Only for Gtk programs.  Gtk sets the WM_CLASS automatically to
> the binary name.  For SDL programs the SDL_VIDEO_X11_WMCLASS
> environment variable was needed also in older releases.

I was talking about StartupWMClass field in .desktop file. It was not 
needed because the default is the binary name which is OK as long as 
SDL_VIDEO_X11_WMCLASS is set to the same name.

Frantisek

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