On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 09:58:47PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> So I go to all the trouble of drafting a proposal for
> register-window-manager, and even start coding it, and you guys don't want
> to use it?
>
> *sigh*
Let's use our existing tools if possible. You are doing a wonderful work
with the X packages, don't make it harder if you can avoid it. :-)
> All right, if we can weather the inevitable religious flame war about which
> what the default priority for each window manager should be, I'll implement
> this solution.
>
> Less work for me, anyway. All I have to do is have /etc/X11/Xsession do
> this:
>
> if [ -x $startup ] && grep -q ^allow-user-xsession /etc/X11/config; then
> exec $startup
> else
> xterm -ls &
> if [ -x /usr/bin/X11/window-manager ]; then
> exec /usr/bin/X11/window-manager ]
> elif [ -x /usr/bin/X11/window-manager ]; then
> exec /usr/bin/X11/sensible-window-manager
> else
> xmessage -nearmouse -button "Quit X Windows" "No window manager
> installed!"
> fi
> fi
Just a comment, xmessage is in xcontrib_*.deb, so the script should check
if it's there before calling it (or xmessage should be moved to xbase, or
xbase should depend on xcontrib, or ...).
Thanks,
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Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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