Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/12: X Window Manager policy

1997-10-25 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Sat 25 Oct 1997, Ian Jackson wrote: > What would be wrong with using update-alternatives to mantain > /usr/bin/window-manager ? (Pointing to the binary itself or to a > script which knows where to find the config file if the window manager > is too stupid in its policies about where to find the

Policy Weekly Issue #4/12: X Window Manager policy

1997-10-25 Thread Ian Jackson
What would be wrong with using update-alternatives to mantain /usr/bin/window-manager ? (Pointing to the binary itself or to a script which knows where to find the config file if the window manager is too stupid in its policies about where to find the config file.) Ian.

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/12: X Window Manager policy

1997-10-24 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> I'd prefer Joey's solution: xbase should install a script `install-wm' (or > similar) which is called by all window manager's postinst scripts. The > `install-wm' script will ask the sysadmin where to place the new wm (top > or bottom of the file). > > Any other ideas? a directory doesn't help

Policy Weekly Issue #4/12: X Window Manager policy

1997-10-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
Topic 12: X Window Manager policy STATE: INPUT Joey Hess wrote on Mon, 30 Jun 1997 to debian-devel: I maintain KDE, which includes a window manager, and I've been wondering how other window managers handle registering themselves in /etc/X11/window-managers. So I took a look