Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alternatives, as I understood them, have to be command line compatible
> because a situation like the one I just described is not desirable.
Alternatives have to be command line compatible, but that means you need
a defined interface that they all s
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 05:30:26AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 10:53:36AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > (add a "xterm -sl 500 -sb -ls -fn 10x20 -j &" line before the exec if you
>
> Wow, that's a mighty Byzantine xterm line. But to each his own. :)
Well, it's on
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 10:53:36AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> (add a "xterm -sl 500 -sb -ls -fn 10x20 -j &" line before the exec if you
Wow, that's a mighty Byzantine xterm line. But to each his own. :)
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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
w
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 11:40:17AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Remember, /etc/X11/window-managers is *only* used if the person using
> > startx or logging in with XDM has no ~/.xsession file, which I image most
> > experienced X users have.
>
>
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Remember, /etc/X11/window-managers is *only* used if the person using
> startx or logging in with XDM has no ~/.xsession file, which I image most
> experienced X users have.
Will there be a way for a user to change his wm without copying over
the who
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 10:53:22PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Okay, it's a good thing you brought that up then. Does Branden's
> proposal include support for this? Perhaps I need to go back and read
> it better, but I don't remember anything about command-line options.
Branden proposes the exist
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?
Don't overreact. Marcelo just brought up what may be a valid point.
Does either proposal include support for varying default command-line
options fo
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*
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 implemen
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> (predepend, isn't it?) Given the binaries provided by xbase -- BTW, some of
No, predepends would be used if the ore-inst needs the package, since the
post inst is what uses it there is no need.
Jason
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> Actually I like that a lot better myself. Could we do it that way
> instead, Branden?
Uh, I've never played with alternatives before. Would someone care to
flesh out this proposal?
Okay, here we go:
/usr/bin/sensible-window-manager (or whatever) is a symlink to one of
the install
Branden Robinson wrote:
> Uh, I've never played with alternatives before. Would someone care to
> flesh out this proposal?
Sure.. make all window managers that would previously register themselves in
/etc/X11/window-managers instead register themselves as an alternative
providing /usr/X11R6/bin/w
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 08:54:18PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> Could we instead have a default priority assigned to each window
>> manager? So postinst scripts would run it like this:
>>
>>register-window-manager pathname priority
>
>You know, this looks like a job for upd
> Could we instead have a default priority assigned to each window
> manager? So postinst scripts would run it like this:
>
>register-window-manager pathname priority
You know, this looks like a job for update-alternatives. Maybe we should
have a /usr/X11R6/bin/sensible-win
Branden Robinson wrote:
> 1) ship an empty /etc/X11/window-managers with xbase
> 2) mark it as a conffile
> 3) separate twm into its own package
> 4) write /usr/sbin/register-window-manager
FWIW, 2 and 4 conflict. I think it's in policy now (or soon will be) that a
package cannot modify any conffi
Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Could we instead have a default priority assigned to each window
> manager? So postinst scripts would run it like this:
>
>register-window-manager pathname priority
You know, this looks like a job for update-alternatives. Maybe we should
have a /usr/X11R6/bin/sensible-wind
Branden Robinson wrote:
> /etc/X11/window-managers is created in xbase's postinst iff the file does
> not already exist.
>
> Elimination of behavior like this is on my List.
>
> The long-term plan is:
>
> 1) ship an empty /etc/X11/window-managers with xbase
> 2) mark it as a conffile
> 3) separat
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 05:36:03PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > The long-term plan is:
> >
> > 1) ship an empty /etc/X11/window-managers with xbase
> > 2) mark it as a conffile
> > 3) separate twm into its own package
> > 4) write /usr/sbin/register-window-manager
>
> I don't think shippin
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 04:23:34PM +0100, Mark Baker wrote:
> > 1) ship an empty /etc/X11/window-managers with xbase
> > 2) mark it as a conffile
>
> So you don't think other packages---such as the window managers---should
> modify it?
It's considered Bad Practice for a package to go about muckin
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 11:19:36AM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>Branden Robinson writes:
> > The long-term plan is:
> >
> > 1) ship an empty /etc/X11/window-managers with xbase
> > 2) mark it as a conffile
> > 3) separate twm into its own package
> > 4) write /usr/sbin/regi
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 09:52:07AM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>register-window-manager [pathname]
> with no arguments, enters interactive mode
> with one pathname argument, invokes interactive mode with "add" action
> and pathname already done, thus prompting for priority (see below
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 01:26:37AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 1) ship an empty /etc/X11/window-managers with xbase
> 2) mark it as a conffile
So you don't think other packages---such as the window managers---should
modify it?
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Branden Robinson writes:
> The long-term plan is:
>
> 1) ship an empty /etc/X11/window-managers with xbase
> 2) mark it as a conffile
> 3) separate twm into its own package
> 4) write /usr/sbin/register-window-manager
I don't think shipping an empty file, and marking
Branden Robinson writes:
> The long-term plan is:
>
> 1) ship an empty /etc/X11/window-managers with xbase
> 2) mark it as a conffile
> 3) separate twm into its own package
> 4) write /usr/sbin/register-window-manager
I don't think shipping an empty file, and marking it as a conffile,
would
register-window-manager [pathname]
with no arguments, enters interactive mode
with one pathname argument, invokes interactive mode with "add" action
and pathname already done, thus prompting for priority (see below)
Could we instead have a default priority assigned to each window
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 01:26:37AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 1) ship an empty /etc/X11/window-managers with xbase
> 2) mark it as a conffile
> 3) separate twm into its own package
thanks!!!
> 4) write /usr/sbin/register-window-manager
>
> register-window-manager [pathname]
> [...]
>
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 11:11:12PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> I was just setting up a new install and ran into the problem of wmaker
> configuring itself before /etc/X11/window-managers existed, it's postinst
> bombed.
This was reported as a bug, and it is fixed on 0.14.1-4, is it not?!? (I
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 11:11:12PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> I was just setting up a new install and ran into the problem of wmaker
> configuring itself before /etc/X11/window-managers existed, it's postinst
> bombed.
>
> I presume some X package creates this file since dpkg can't find it, t
I was just setting up a new install and ran into the problem of wmaker
configuring itself before /etc/X11/window-managers existed, it's postinst
bombed.
I presume some X package creates this file since dpkg can't find it, this
also means that every window manager has a dependency on that package
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