Re: What happened to gnome-settings-daemon?

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 04:06:57PM +0100, Gee Law wrote:

 > gee@duck:~$ dpkg -S gnome-settings-daemon
 > capplets: /usr/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon

 That's, oh, so broken.

 * Some GNOME apps need gnome-settings-daemon to be running in order to
   behave the way the user configured them

 * These apps don't start gnome-settings-daemon by themselves

 * Some people happen to use these apps without using gnome-session or
   gnome-control-panel (or whatever it is that normally starts this up
   in a GNOME session)

 I have:

 if command -v gnome-settings-daemon > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
    gnome-settings-daemon
 fi

 which I know seemingly need to change to:

 if command -v gnome-settings-daemon > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
    gnome-settings-daemon &
 else if test -x /usr/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon
    /usr/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon &
 fi

 And this is madness, because I need to hardcode random paths in my
 .xsession now.

 If gnome-settings-daemon is to be run by users, why isn't it somewhere
 in the default PATH?

-- 
Marcelo