Alarm Clock Applet

alarm-clock-applet spawns a window at startup of new user sessions

Bug #877037 reported by Chow Loong Jin
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Alarm Clock Applet
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alarm-clock-applet (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

At the start of user sessions, alarm-clock-applet spawns a window that sits at 0,0, i.e. obscured by the panel. Instead of doing this, it should start up with --hidden, and let the window manager choose where to position its window.

Changing /etc/xdg/autostart/alarm-clock-applet.desktop to have Exec=/usr/bin/alarm-clock-applet --hidden instead of /usr/bin/alarm-clock-applet works well as a temporary workaround, but I believe this should be used as the default behaviour.

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lp:debian/alarm-clock-applet
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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote :

Whoops, it wasn't an upstream issue. My mistake there.

Changed in alarm-clock:
status: New → Invalid
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in alarm-clock-applet (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Matt Parlette (matthew-parlette) wrote :

I agree with this, I always need to move the window, then close it. It isn't critical, but it would be nice to start it hidden

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package alarm-clock-applet - 0.3.2-2ubuntu1

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alarm-clock-applet (0.3.2-2ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * [01603b4] Merge from Debian Unstable, remaining changes:
    + [67ffb6e] Add appindicator support

alarm-clock-applet (0.3.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * [ba5585c] Add missing period to package description.
    Thanks to Paul Stewart <email address hidden> (LP: #830806)
  * [a48460e] Add --hide option to autostart desktop file (LP: #877037)
  * [63a9f44] Add gstreamer dependencies.
    This should fix segfaults to do with not being able to create a media player
    (Closes: #626364)
  * [7eb7fbc] Update maintainer email address
  * [294a018] Update copyright to DEP-5 format
  * [1a1883d] No-change Standards-Version bump (3.9.1 → 3.9.2)
 -- Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:02:08 +0800

Changed in alarm-clock-applet (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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bojo42 (bojo42) wrote :

Need to reopen as it should be "--hidden" instead of "--hide" and that disables autostart completely on precise so far.

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bojo42 (bojo42) wrote :

Here is the trivial fix.

Please give it a freeze execption, as it was a typo in the first place.

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bojo42 (bojo42) wrote :

Can't set it to new, therefore i am opening a new bug.

Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)
Changed in alarm-clock-applet (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Triaged
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package alarm-clock-applet - 0.3.2-3ubuntu1

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alarm-clock-applet (0.3.2-3ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * [293a87a] Merge from Debian unstable, remaining changes:
    + [67ffb6e] Add appindicator support

alarm-clock-applet (0.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * [db69482] Change from "--hide" to "--hidden" in autostart desktop file.
    Thanks to bojo42 (LP: #877037)
 -- Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 02:20:35 +0800

Changed in alarm-clock-applet (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton) wrote :

I just got this update and logged out and back in. I'm still experiencing this issue.

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bojo42 (bojo42) wrote :

Jep that's true, AFAIK you need to delete the old entry from "/home/USER/.config/autostart/" and then copy "/etc/xdg/autostart/alarm-clock-applet.desktop" to that place.

An alternative is to use the GUI for editing autostarts and just change the command to "--hidden".

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