Crikey ... its works seamless but not via a full desktop...Not seen that before. If thats the case id compare things with a workstation. How does the application behave if installed on a Workstation ? Do you get two buttons or one ? ----- Original Message ----- From: Hutchinson, Alan To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:32 AM Subject: [THIN] Re: Duplicate Task Bar Icons For Each Executable - Seamless App..... All of which has set me re-looking at a problem we've had here for some time which is sort of the reverse of the problem you have. I have an application that when run within a published desktop provides two buttons on the taskbar (within the published desktop). I believe it is Delphi based, and if I switch between the two butons the application just freezes so it is an annoyance. If I publish it as a seamless application it appears to behave itself with a single button on the task bar. Have just tried an RDP desktop and still get the same two buttons, so clearly not an ICA issue. Any ideas where to start? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M Sent: 17 November 2005 23:00 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Duplicate Task Bar Icons For Each Executable - Seamless App..... Hello Shane, I have gone through a similar issue with an application that worked under XP Fr3 + Post Sp3 Hotfixes but then changed once we upgraded to FR3 SP4 and still occurs in our PS4 test Farm. We were also able to mimic the issue via an RDP session thus actually proving it wasn't a pure Citrix issue but rather the programmer not using parent and child windows properly. On a test server we changed the RDP listener settings so that the application would start whenever we connected via an RDP session. This is about as close as you can get to seamless apps with RDP. We then found that the application behaved exactly the same as a seamless ICA session and one icon would minimise to the corner of one screen rather than the taskbar. Have you tried this with RDP sessions to compare ? There does appear to have been a heck of a lot of undocumented changes to the seamless engine since XE103W2K133 (a private hotfix). Our issues did not occur with XE103W2K126 or lower. We got the same issue without any hotfixes on PS4 new hotfixes didn't address the issue. The seamless code does appear to have been tightened/altered with XP FR3 SP4 and PS4. Also don't forget you can alter the behaviour of your seamless applications without affecting other applications. Have a look at the following urls http://www.brianmadden.com/attachments/seamless-flags-extended.pdf This PDF is excellent (thanks Thomas!) and provides a ton of information in one place. These two Citrix articles provide additional information. http://ctxex10.citrix.com/kb/entry.jspa?externalID=CTX103137 http://ctxex10.citrix.com/kb/entry.jspa?externalID=CTX101644 Don't forget that if you use SPY++ on a seamless application rather than on a desktop, you have to publish SPY++ on the same server and run it from the same server ( i.e. session share). Use SPY++ to identify the windows classname and using the information above it is pretty easy to create registry entries to alter the behaviour of your seamless apps. Typically unless your application has a known issue with seamless apps, start with the lowest values and work your way up until the behaviour is altered. If nothing happens try looking at the various seamless app tweaks at the back of the PDF to see if any of those alter your seamless behaviour. You don't have to restart your server each time you make a reg change. Just make sure you close your seamless sessions and restart them. Id love to know how you get on. I've spent loads of time with SPY++ and its immensely satisfying when you get the right registry entries. Bl**dy annoying getting to the fix though :¬) Regards ----- Original Message ----- From: Shane.Rees@xxxxxxxxxx To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 3:37 AM Subject: [THIN] Re: Duplicate Task Bar Icons For Each Executable - Seamless App..... Thanks Greg - we are not running Win2k3 SP1 yet, so that may be a good place to start to see if the behaviour "goes away" - that is the only difference I can see - our version of Ellipse is the same, PSE version is the same with no other obvious differences. I will do some testing and then let you know how I go - thanks again for the feedback. Cheers, Shane ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of gareese@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, 17 November 2005 12:23 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Duplicate Task Bar Icons For Each Executable - Seamless App..... we are running PS4 on Win2k3 SP1 with all available updates installed from MS. Under TWI, i have not added anything special. All that is there is the DllName and NotifyEvent keys I have PSE400WK3003 installed. that was for printing though. I'm running ICA 9.1 as the client and we are running Ellipse 5.2.3.2 On 11/16/05, Shane.Rees@xxxxxxxxxx < Shane.Rees@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: hmmmm.....are you able to check the registry on your box to see if you have any special entries under the HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Citrix/wfshell/TWI area for seamless flags etc. Also, what OS + Patch level are you running it on, what version of Ellipse client & do you have any Presentation Server 4 hotfixes applied ?? Any further info appreciated. Cheers, Shane -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of gareese@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:30 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Duplicate Task Bar Icons For Each Executable - Seamless App..... I just tried it both ways. what i am seeing is a momentary flash of a second icon in the systray when opening other files. there will be two then one goes away almost immediately. Greg On 11/16/05, Shane.Rees@xxxxxxxxxx < Shane.Rees@xxxxxxxxxx > wrote: Thanks Greg - it is reverse for us - it behaves fine when run locally from full Citrix desktop - but misbehaves when run via seamless app. I look forward to your findings.... Cheers, Shane ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of gareese@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:42 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Duplicate Task Bar Icons For Each Executable - Seamless App..... let me see what I can figure out. we have been running Ellipse here for a few weeks on PS4 and testing for a few months before that. I have seen it happen in a full dekstop but not in seamless sessions. Greg On 11/16/05, Shane.Rees@xxxxxxxxxx < Shane.Rees@xxxxxxxxxx > wrote: Yup - Ellipse is the culprit - 2 taskbar icons appearing for every MSQ executeable that is run (consistently) - this wasn't a problem prior to Presentation Server 4. Cheers, Shane ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of gareese@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, 17 November 2005 9:21 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Duplicate Task Bar Icons For Each Executable - Seamless App..... you get this running Ellipse? I have seen two tray icons appear at times. How many are you seeing? Greg On 11/16/05, Shane.Rees@xxxxxxxxxx < Shane.Rees@xxxxxxxxxx > wrote: Hi All - we have an in-house ERP application which we publish seamlessly via Citrix Presentation Server 4. The application has a number of independent executeables which the user can invoke from within the application. Each executable then displays a new window for the associated exe. The app behaved fine when published as a seamless app, until a recent Citrix upgrade from XPe to Presentation Server 4 Enterprise. Now when the independent executables are invoked, we end up with 2 task bar icons for every exe that is run (only one of the task bar icons can be set to focus though - if the other is clicked, it automatically toggles straight back to the existing one with focus). The executables are written in borland/delphi, which do have some known possible issues with seamless mode, due to an "invisible" window which is generated for each exe. I have tried numerous seamless flag registry tweaks documented by Citrix + Brian Madden that relate to strange seamless apps behaviour - however no resolution as yet. Any help with this one would be appreciated. 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