Lotus SameTime Forum

I also experienced that Sametime Connect won't redisplay if you switch to a different workspace and back. I solved this in fvwm by a) making it "sticky", so it'd go with me when I switched, and b) putting it below everything else in the window stacking layer and making it stay there via fvwm's "StaysOnBottom" style.

Also re: the tiny "wine systray" window: fvwm allows you to override the "don't allow resize" hint, in which case you can resize it all you want. I use these settings:

Style "Lotus Sametime Connect*" NoTitle, Layer 0 2, CirculateSkip, Sticky
Style "Wine-Systray" ResizeHintOverride, CirculateSkip, Layer 0 2, Sticky

I recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.6 and CxOffice 3.0, and observed something else: if I'm logged in, and I exit, I get an uncaught exception (and lots of debugging output about "such-and-such library has-or-doesn't-have debug information". But, if I log out, and then exit, no exception, and so no extra debug output.

One really weird behavior I haven't been able to pin down or explain: it seems to run better (connects w/out error more frequently) if I cd to the installation directory and run it from there:

cd "/opt/cxoffice/support/dotwine/fake_windows/Program Files/Lotus/Sametime Client"  
wine ./Connect.exe

than if I just run /opt/cxoffice/bin/connect. Running just /opt/cxoffice/bin/connect often seems to result in a hung connection. Not always, but often, so I just run it from the install directory and don't worry about it.

-- Larry Clapp, larry@theclapp.org

Oh boy, activity! Funny, I had not thought of making the window 'sticky' as a rather elegant workaround to the display issue. Normally I like to keep all my apps segregated in their own workspace, but Sametime is kind of one of those that for some reason I don't think I'll mind it following me around the desktops. It stays consistent as other windows overlap and brought back to the foreground.

As for the Systray resize thing, I'll have to figure out how to override that with Metacity, but now that I don't need to do the systray double-click anymore it becomes less of a hassle.