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Daemon mode unpredictable behavior

Hello everyone, I've been running into an issue lately when I tried to use the daemon mode to speed up the opening.

Here are the behavior I found :

  • When mapped Super+L to "xfdashboard"
    • When I have only one workspace, it just simply won't open
    • When I have multiple workspaces, it will only open if I switch workspace
  • When mapped Super+L to "xfdashboard -t"
    • It will only open on the current workspace on the third attempt
      • After it first open, if I quit the dashboard using the Super+L it will work as expected as long as I don't click anywhere in any other window, in which case I'm back at previous step. If I quit using escape, it won't reopen at the next Super+L hit.
    • If I press Super+L once it will only open when switching workspace

Without deamon everything works as expected, except that it is slow to open.

Here is my setup :

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