[kde-linux] Korganizer no longer opens from system tray

[AG]

AG wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 22:43:01 AG wrote:
>>   
>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 18:26:15 AG wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> Hello
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Some help please: I am running KDE4.3.1 on an up-to-date GNU/Linux
>>>>>
>>>>> Debian Testing (codename Squeeze) box. In GNOME however, I have
>>>>>
>>>>> Korganizer minimised to my system tray/ panel and although reminders
>>>>> pop
>>>>>
>>>>> up and can be edited, I cannot open Korganizer from the panel itself to
>>>>>
>>>>> add/ edit reminders. In other words, I can launch the app from the menu
>>>>>
>>>>> and CLI, but cannot access it once it has launched and is minimised to
>>>>>
>>>>> the panel/ system tray.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There are no obvious settings involved and, as noted, it works fine in
>>>>>
>>>>> terms of reminder pop ups, which once the reminder window is there, I
>>>>>
>>>>> can then access the Calendar and edit entries.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this a bug or is it unique to my set up?
>>>>>         
>>>> It's not altogether clear, but what you are describing sounds like
>>>> korgac, not korganizer. From the man page:
>>>>
>>>> korgac runs in the background and handles displaying alarms from the
>>>> KOrganizer calendar.
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried launching korganizer?
>>>>
>>>> Anne
>>>>       
>>> Thanks for pointing that out to me, Anne.  I wasn't aware of the
>>> distinction.  You were right: ps aux | grep korganizer and korgac showed
>>> me that only the latter was running.  However, even once the latter was
>>> killed and the former launched, the minimised system tray icon on the
>>> Gnome panel wasn't opened (activated?) by my mouse.  I have to either
>>> kill that process and relaunch or wait until a reminder pops up.
>>>
>>> In short, whatever the actual difference between korgac and korganizer
>>> (which I wasn't aware of), there doesn't appear to be a difference in
>>> terms of the specifics of the problem.
>>>
>>> Anything else I can consider?
>>>
>>>     
>> The system tray icon is korgac only.  If you want korganizer to be instantly 
>> available you have to minimise it to the Task Manager.
>>  
>> Anne
>> --
>>   
> "Task Manager"?  I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with that term, except in 
> a MS Windows environment.  I am using Gnome as my DE with my preferred 
> KDE applications within that environment.  I never experienced any 
> problems with KMail nor Korganizer until relatively recently, and I 
> have not changed my user behaviour over the last six or so months with 
> respect to these applications.  On the basis of this, I can but 
> conclude that the apps are not "behaving" according to my user 
> expectations.
>
> If I need to change my user behaviour to accommodate some changes 
> within the apps themselves, then so be it, but I woyuld need to know 
> what it is that I am supposed to be doing differently ... and at this 
> point this isn't clear to me.
>
> Cheers
>
> AG
A further update:  I have tested this on LXDE and Xfce4 and KDE itself 
and the same problem occurs. korgac (or whatever it is called) is not 
activated from the system tray on any of these DE/WMs.  Now whether this 
is because of some background library, I don't know, but if you have any 
suggestions on ways of debugging this, I am more than happy to check it out.

Cheers
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