[Psi-devel] bug: tray icon missing

[textshell-I1QKlO at neutronstar.dyndns.org]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 11:45:39AM +0100, Maciek Niedzielski wrote:
> Matthias Wimmer wrote:
> > Hi Martin!
> > 
> > textshell-I1QKlO at neutronstar.dyndns.org schrieb:
> >> Yes, if explorer isn't running or crashes apps on windows need to do some
> >> special handling to get the tray icons to work rigth.
> >> I think that's a know Problem with the windows api, maybe trolltech didn't
> >> code that part yet?
> >>
> >> If that's the problem, maybe psi can work around it some way. But that's
> >> something for a windows coder (detect explorer/shell/... (re)start and
> >> recreate the qt trayicon instance)
> > 
> > At least for me this is not the problem. It is not only the Tray Icon,
> > that is not appearing. Also the main window of Psi does not get oppened.
> > There is just a process "psi.exe" in the process list. I kill this
> > process and restart Psi and everything works fine.
> 
> Now that you mention this... it happens to me too, sometimes. But I
> always thought this is sth wrong with my debugger, etc.
> Process starts, takes a little memory, and does nothing.
> 

Never seen this on linux... I'd put a bit filelogging in there and try to
see if if "hangs" somewhere.
Or can you attach a debugger to the running program and get some
backtraces? 
Maybe some of the windows specific things can loop forever or something
like that?

 - Martin H.