Re: [PATCH] compositor: pass options to the shell process, v2

2011-12-06 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 17:36:36 -0800 Bill Spitzak wrote: > Making a switch that passes all *remaining* arguments to the shell > would be better because it avoids quoting issues and makes it > trivial to edit a call to the shell into a call to the compositor. > > Ie: > > wayland-compositor -

Re: [PATCH] compositor: pass options to the shell process, v2

2011-12-06 Thread Bill Spitzak
Making a switch that passes all *remaining* arguments to the shell would be better because it avoids quoting issues and makes it trivial to edit a call to the shell into a call to the compositor. Ie: wayland-compositor -x -y -b blah -x bar This makes the compositor get the -x and -y swi

Re: [PATCH] compositor: pass options to the shell process, v2

2011-11-07 Thread Tiago Vignatti
On 11/07/2011 11:06 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: When desktop-shell was changed to be launched by the compositor alone, we also lost the opportunity to give it arguments, specifically the background picture. Add the compositor option -b (--shell-options) for passing arguments to the shell process.

[PATCH] compositor: pass options to the shell process, v2

2011-11-07 Thread Pekka Paalanen
When desktop-shell was changed to be launched by the compositor alone, we also lost the opportunity to give it arguments, specifically the background picture. Add the compositor option -b (--shell-options) for passing arguments to the shell process. The parameter to -b is a comma-separated list of