Hi there,

This is probably the most stupid question that you had on this forum, but I take the responsibility
Actually, I don't have trouble with Amarok until now, everything is working fine, using Ubuntu Hardy 64.
I just cannot find how to make the startup behave like I want, I don't know if it's possible, but I would be surprised that not?!

In fact, when I start Amarok, I've got the tray icon and that's all. I have to go to the tray, to restore, and then I can have the library. I cannot find a correct way to start Amarok, have the tray and the library directly opened.

The only way I've found until now is to open the library before closing. Then, at the next start, the library will be opened again, but actually this solution sucks quite a lot
Is there any way to make it how I want?!

Thanks in advance!

Nobody gets an idea?

Thanks!

use your window manager's window specific settings to force the behaviour you want.

godbout wrote:The only way I've found until now is to open the library before closing. Then, at the next start, the library will be opened again, but actually this solution sucks quite a lot
Is there any way to make it how I want?!

Uhm, isn't this exactly what you want? If Amarok was visible before shutting it down, it'll come up visible at the next start too. Likewise, if it was minimized to tray, it'll start up minimized the next time. What's wrong with that?

Btw, you can also disable the tray icon entirely, in the General settings dialog in Amarok.

dangle_wtf wrote:use your window manager's window specific settings to force the behaviour you want.

Hugh?

Mark Kretschmann wrote:Uhm, isn't this exactly what you want? If Amarok was visible before shutting it down, it'll come up visible at the next start too. Likewise, if it was minimized to tray, it'll start up minimized the next time. What's wrong with that?

I actually don't agree on this behavior. I would say that, mainly, a person opens a player, gets into the library, chooses his music, and then puts the program as a tray if he wants.
Then, you can close it how you want: by making it visible or not, closing from the tray, closed by the OS by rebooting, etc, etc... But at the next start, Amarok should be visible in every case, to choose your music.
I know that there is this option to start with the music which was playing when you closed the program. Actually, I feel that this is really less useful than starting directly with the library visible.

But maybe I'm wrong!

Mark Kretschmann wrote:Btw, you can also disable the tray icon entirely, in the General settings dialog in Amarok.

Yep, I know, I like it so I keep it, that's not the pb.

But anyway, actually it's not a big deal at all.
The behavior just seems strange to me, and I've seen many people asking for it in this forum as a kind of feature request, but a long time ago, if I remember well...

godbout wrote:

dangle_wtf wrote:use your window manager's window specific settings to force the behaviour you want.

Hugh?

If you use KDE, for example, right-click on the Amarok title bar and look under "Window settings". You're looking for something like geometry settings, or system tray settings. If you're not using kde, I'm sure you'll figure it out.
Generally you can tell each application to launch the way you want it to, rather than the way it remembers. rtfm to find out more.

These sorts of settings are usually window-manager specific, rather than application-based, afaik

Oh oh oh! Thanks for the tip, I didn't know that. I'm actually quite new to Linux systems
Thanks!