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I've seen this problem in Mandriva 2006, ie KDE 3.4.2, but then I thought I made some mistakes. I'm now using Mandriva 2007, thus KDE 3.5.4, and I can still see this problem. And now I'm very sure it's a problem within KDE.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Create an application link (.desktop file) in Autostart.

2. Use the command "ksystraycmd --hidden kwrite" (without quotes, of course) to start kwrite. You could use any other program of your choice other than kwrite.

3. (Optional) Double-click the file to make sure it really starts kwrite in system tray.

4. Close the session and re-login again.

5. Observe how kwrite is launched; it's launched like a normal application:
ie its icon isn't in the system tray, and of course it's not possible to put it there.

Is this a known bug? Any solution?

Thanks for any help. Really appreciated.

Thanks

Just a question: are you using Mandriva as well? And your KDE version?

Actually, I'm looking for ways to make VMWare more friendly to Linux users. It needs to launch a utility called vmware-toolbox at startup. Without this, copy-n-paste between host system and guest system is impossible.

I think I might have found one of the possible causes of the problem: session saving!

I've noticed that the next time I open a session again, I've got two kwrite.

However, I still think there's something wrong with ksystraycmd with autostart because sometimes I would just get one kwrite instead of two (one from previous session, and one from autostart). And sometimes no kwrite is in the systray while I expect one kwrite to be there since it's called by autostart in this session and ksystraycmd.

I'm now using KDE 3.5.6 inside Mandriva 2007 Spring and the problem is still perfectly reproducible.