in explorer, when you get a message the window will blink in your taskbar. how can i get this to work in litestep? it's essential because i always forget i'm talking to people and need to be reminded by a blinking light.
Depends on which taskbar module you're using.
What theme are you using?
You can open your theme's theme.rc file and look at all the *NetLoadModule lines for a reference to "taskbar" (either xTaskbar, taskbar3, or tasks I think...) and then you can look up the docs for that particular taskbar module for how they do the blinking.
I know xTaskbar is super easy to do.
Just to add to what jdub is saying, there's an issue with xtaskbar not blinking properly using its default settings. If you add in
xTaskbarUpdateInterval 500
xTaskbarFlashingInterval 500
it will fix the issue.