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    Problem with kopete and kstart

    Hi,

    I'm a new convert to Kubuntu, and I was hoping to make kopete start without creating a taskbar entry. A few Google searches revealed that the proper way to do this would be by typing: kstart --skiptaskbar kopete but this doesn't work for me on Kubuntu 7.04/KDE 3.5.6. This is odd because the same command works as expected with kate or speedcrunch, etc. . . kopete just hates me I think.

    Anyway if anyone has any suggestions, or can verify that this doesn't work for them either, I'd appreciate it!

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    Re: Problem with kopete and kstart

    Okay . . . this appears to work:
    kstart --skiptaskbar --window "kopete" kopete

    Sorry for the double-post. :P

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      #3
      Re: Problem with kopete and kstart

      Okay . . . nevermind. The command I posted previously only worked once, and I can't replicate it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Can others get this to work?

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        #4
        Re: Problem with kopete and kstart

        Hmm... I'm not sure why that only works once, but fire up Kopete and click on the Kopete icon the the far top-left. Click Configure Window Behavior > Window-Specific Settings > New... > Detect > Click on Kopete > Use window class > OK > Preferences > Apply initially > Check the box to the right. This should make Kopete not create a taskbar entry when it gets started.
        For external use only.

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          #5
          Re: Problem with kopete and kstart

          You can create a entry in the folder /home/YOURUSER/.kde/Autostart. Create a link for the application with a right-click>Create New>Link for Application. Or you can go to System Settings>Advanced Tab>Session Manager. Mark the option "Restore previous Section". This will restart all the programs that you leave open in your previous section.

          OBS: I am running a Portuguese version of Kubuntu, so the names maybe don't be exactly the same above.
          If you find a grammar error in my text, is because English is not my native language :-)

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            #6
            Re: Problem with kopete and kstart

            Thanks for the tip SheeEttin. I had already tried something similar through kcontrol, but that didn't work either. I just realized that your method (and the kstart method) both work perfectly every time as long as I turn off beryl (probably should've mentioned that I was using this). Your suggestion actually prompted me to turn beryl off since clicking the top left icon in the title bar does nothing under beryl.

            Anyway so I guess that solves this problem. If I launch kopete without beryl and then load beryl later, the taskbar entry remains absent, so I'll write a little script to flick back and forth between window managers when I launch kopete. What is really puzzling though is that beryl has no problem with issuing this command for kate, speedcrunch, etc. Strange.

            Thanks again for your help (and you too M@GO LoBEL, although that is not really what I was asking . . . sorry if I was unclear)!

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