How to add the loading software thingy??

[casaluna]

Hi,

I'm using Lubuntu 13.04 and love it and the LXDE environment for its speed and simplicity on my laptop for travel.

The one thing which is missing that I would like to add is a rotating circle or hourglass cursor thingy that indicated that an application is launching. E.g. if I click to launch Chromium or Firefox (or anything else) nothing appears to happen for a few seconds before it' pops up. So theres a tendency to think you havent clicked hard enough and click again etc. Any other system that I've used has a circle/hourglass to indicate its loading.

So is there a way of installing this into LXDE?

Thanks
Katelyn

[Rex Bouwense]

Got some good news and some bad news. First, welcome to the lxde forums. Your question has been asked before but unfortunately no solution was presented.
http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=36241
There is also no solution in Ask Ubuntu which might apply to Lubuntu.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/ask
I could find nothing in Source Forge or Launchpad. Perhaps some one has found a work around or a solution in the 18 months or so since the thread last had a posting.

[casaluna]

The good news is "welcome to the forum"? thats it? Hmm
Seriously though I did find this
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... p=12692138
Despit it supposedly being for Lubuntu I'm a bit wary since it's a KDE dependency and wondering if it would break my system?

Katelyn

[Rex Bouwense]

Replacing openbox with the KDE window manager will not break your system but it will change it. The very reason(s) that many of us have moved to Lubuntu (or LXDE on other operating systems) is its lightness. You can add just about anything to it but you also have to live with the result. As you know KDE is a little more resource heavy than LXDE so you choose. How badly do you want the "loading software thingy"?

[casaluna]

Replacing openbox with the KDE window manager will not break your system but it will change it. The very reason(s) that many of us have moved to Lubuntu (or LXDE on other operating systems) is its lightness. You can add just about anything to it but you also have to live with the result. As you know KDE is a little more resource heavy than LXDE so you choose. How badly do you want the "loading software thingy"?

I guess I can live without it. As I said it's more of an issue of wondering "did I click hard enough?" It seems strange that this was ommited. So would this be missing from any distro using LXDE then?

[casaluna]

Just womdering if anythings changed with the recent release 13.10?

Katelyn

[seppalta]

Strange question. On a good lxde system, apps should launch so quickly that it would be futile to have a timer, unless you are a superperson and measure time in microseconds.

[casaluna]

I don't think you quite undrstand my question. I'm refereing to launching applications. Take Firefox for example, it takes a few seconds after clicking on it for it to load. I've never seen anything different on any system I've used.