Hi --
Sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you about this -- I've been busy.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 06:13:47PM -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In Arch Linux, we add a .desktop file for fvwm in /etc/X11/sessions/.
Is /etc/X11/sessions/ a valid installation target for these, or does it
vary?
> For fvwm we use:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=FVWM2
> Comment=The fvwm2 window manager
> Exec=fvwm2
> # no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
> Icon=
> Type=Application
>
> and for fvwm-devel:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Type=XSession
> Exec=/usr/bin/fvwm
> TryExec=/usr/bin/fvwm
> Name=fvwm-devel
>
> Perhaps you would want to, at least, add a .desktop file in the source
> tarball.
I'm happy to do this -- and it would seem that it is easy enough to get make
to fill this out with the relevant information as well (i.e., taking into
account any PREFIX options, etc., it might have had.)
Prod me in a few days, Eric, if I don't get back to you sooner about this.
I've seen other distros do this as well, so I know it's something that's
happening a lot.
-- Thomas Adam
--
"Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am
not." -- Morrissey ("Girl Least Likely To" -- off of Viva Hate.)
