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, this > also means that every window manager has a dependency on that package or > has a bug.. (APT likes to configure the window manager before x* without > a dependency to change that.) /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) separate twm into its own package 4) write /usr/sbin/register-window-manager 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) register-window-manager --add pathname adds window-manager at pathname to bottom of list register-window-manager --remove pathname removes window-manager at pathname from list The interactive mode would display the non-comment contents of /etc/X11/window-managers prepended with numbers from 1 to n and prompt for an action (help, quit, add, remove, priority). The add command would prompt for a pathname and a priority (with a default of last), the remove command would prompt for a name (basename accepted if no collisions), the priority command would prompt for a name (basename accepted if no collisions) and a priority (with a default of current priority). I have no idea when I'll get around to actually writing this. I imagine it would have applicability beyond just this one configuration file. The non-interactive invocations are, of course, for use by window managers' maintainer scripts. I envision something like the following: window-manager-postinst: if [ $interactive = 1 ]; then # I assume we'll have this someday register-window-manager /usr/bin/X11/window-manager else register-window-manager --add /usr/bin/X11/window-manager fi window-manager-postrm: register-window-manager --remove /usr/bin/X11/window-manager Of course, all window managers will have to depend on xbase for this to work. Is there any reasonable scenario in which a user would have a window manager installed but not xbase? Comments very much welcome. -- G. Branden Robinson | I am sorry, but what you have mistaken Purdue University | for malicious intent is nothing more branden@purdue.edu | than sheer incompetence! http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- J. L. Rizzo II
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