Please provide an option to enable Urgency Hint so task-bar buttons blink when a window needs attention

[willbprog127]

I use Linux as my daily OS, and want to use LXQt for my DE, but I cannot because the panel's task-bar does not support the ICCCM UrgencyHint (see link below):

http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-4.html#s-4.1.2.4

This is important to users like me, because I must respond in a timely manner to customers who are instant messaging me, or when an e-mail arrives.

"The UrgencyHint flag, if set in the flags field, indicates that the client deems the window contents to be urgent, requiring the timely response of the user. The window manager must make some effort to draw the user's attention to this window while this flag is set. The window manager must also monitor the state of this flag for the entire time the window is in the Normal or Iconic state and must take appropriate action when the state of the flag changes. The flag is otherwise independent of the window's state; in particular, the window manager is not required to deiconify the window if the client sets the flag on an Iconic window. Clients must provide some means by which the user can cause the UrgencyHint flag to be set to zero or the window to be withdrawn. The user's action can either mitigate the actual condition that made the window urgent, or it can merely shut off the alarm."

Once this option is offered in the lxqt-panel, I will be able to use LXQt as my DE full-time.

Thanks!

[jleclanche]

This would be excellent for 0.8.

[willbprog127]

Thank you very much! :-D