Hi, I've been wondering why my emacs server process did not see the $GPG_AGENT_INFO variable: I called my autostarts from my .Xresources file which gets executed (on Debian) before gpg-agent gets started...
I tried the PID way of autostarting[1] but it did not work. I don't know why. [1] http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Autostart#PID_way Since I don't like to touch the filesystem for every tiny bit I had the idea to set an X resource property after the autorun was done: <code> #!/bin/sh PROP=autostart.wasrun HASPROP=$(xrdb -query|grep $PROP) if [ "$HASPROP" != "" ] then exit 0; fi TEMPLATE=xsession-$USER-$PPID-XXX TEMPFILE=$(mktemp --tmpdir $TEMPLATE) echo "logging to $TEMPFILE" echo "$PROP: on" | xrdb -merge ( $HOME/bin/dex -v -a 2>&1 1>$TEMPFILE ) & </code> I have no deeper knowledge on X resources so I'd be happy if somebody would like to clean this up and post it to the wiki. - Wouldn't it be nice if awesome lua would have functions to manipulate and query X resources? - Wouldn't it be nice if awesome would by itself already set an X resource property once it has completed the processing of its configuration? Later restarts could then check whether this property is already set. - Wouldn't it be nice if there'd actually be some free desktop standard property to be set once a window manager has fully started up? Regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
