Hi, Am Samstag, den 19.06.2010, 15:04 +0200 schrieb Jan Vornberger: > > I just uploaded 0.4.1-2, including .desktop and .wm files to register > > Bluetile as a window manager. > > Cool! I was wondering, though: Bluetile is pretty much intended to be > used with a desktop environment. The way it is set up now, selecting the > new option in GDM starts Bluetile standalone. Yes, that is suboptimal. > Maybe it could be changed to start GNOME + Bluetile? I'm just not sure > how to handle dependencies then. I don't know if Bluetile should depend > on all of GNOME - but maybe it can be just one of those lower > 'recommendations' or what they are called? Maybe the bluetile-gnome.desktop file can be modified such that is ignored if /usr/bin/gnome-session is not present. I think there is a field for that... You could play with "TryExec", see http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html The second question is how to make gnome use bluetile for just this session. Possibly by starting bluetile, which then starts gnome-session and somehow prevents metacity from starting? But sounds not very clean to me. Maybe best would be to remove the session entry again and give bluetile’s welcome screen the option to set (and unset) itself as the default window manager – similar to how web browsers have been doing it for a long time now. I can’t tell you the “proper” way of setting the default GNOME window manager these days. Probably a GConf key. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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