Bug#771587: caja hardly startable outside MATE desktop environment

[Mike Gabriel]

On  So 30 Nov 2014 22:45:44 CET, Mike Gabriel wrote:

Package: caja
Severity: important



My expectation is to only launch the file browser window of caja.





Greets,
Mike

When launching caja via cmdline in a terminal or via the application menu outside a MATE desktop environment, caja will always launch the MATE desktop (background + icons + context menu). Suggestion: Provide caja and caja-deskop in /usr/bin and move caja to ${libexec} dir. The files caja and caja-desktop are simple wrappers for caja using the correct options with caja to lauch the file browser and/or the desktop manager. How to reproduce: use i3, xmonad, or awesome as desktop shell and run caja from a terminal.

Something like

"""
if (g_getenv ("DESKTOP_SESSION") != "mate") { no_desktop = TRUE ; }
"""

and

"""
if (g_getenv ("XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP") != "MATE") { no_desktop = TRUE ; }
"""

Has to be added to caja-applications.c.

Stefano is taking care of this.

Mike

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