Hello,

On Sun 01 Sep 2019 at 07:21PM -07, Sean Whitton wrote:

>> I'd appreciate if you could look over these changes and tell me if you
>> agree (as we both should agree on at least the list of slave
>> alternatives), have alternative suggestions or otherwise comments.
>
> I thought about the issue of the Xsession.d file and
> /etc/default/unclutter, and concluded that it could stay in
> src:unclutter only.  My thought was that most contemporary users of
> unclutter-xfixes will probably expect to have to start the program
> themselves, e.g. in ~/.config/i3/config.  I was certainly surprised when
> I first installed unclutter, rebooted for whatever reason and discovered
> it had started itself.
>
> Someone who *does* want to keep using the Xsession.d file with
> unclutter-xfixes can just install both unclutter and unclutter-xfixes.
>
> Without your additional changes on top of my patch, that will just work
> (I've tested it): the priority of the unclutter-xfixes link group is 20,
> such that if you have both packages installed unclutter-xfixes
> automatically occupied /usr/bin/unclutter (since someone who has
> installed unclutter-xfixes very likely wants to use that in preference
> to unclutter-classic) but the Xsession.d file still works.
>
> Does this make sense to you?  I'm certainly not wedded to the idea, but
> I'd like to hear your opinion about it.

Ping -- what do you think about this?

I'd like to get src:unclutter-xfixes into NEW and it would be best to do
that only after we've finished discussing src:unclutter.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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