[661] in athena10
Re: set skip_foo; window managers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Dec 2 16:44:02 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 14:02 -0500, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Support:
> skip_xss
This is technically problematic, since the screensaver is now started
through gnome-session and not the system dotfiles.
> skip_initial_xterm: Is this really a big deal?
There's no initial xterm in Athena 10 any more, unless one has been
added since I changed teams.
> skip_nautilus:
This would also be problematic to support, since nautilus is started
through gnome-session.
Now that we're using gnome-session, we kind of have to treat GNOME as an
opaque blob. GNOME includes the window manager (though there are some
wizard-level ways to change that, I believe), Nautilus, panel,
gnome-settings-daemon (which is what skip_capplets controls in 9.4), and
a few other bits.
If a user does not want to use GNOME, the right answer in Athena 10 is
probably to use a custom .xsession.
> That also brings us to the question of how we want to deal with window
> managers.
I would recommend installing all of the window manager packages we can
identify, but not making any effort to support them beyond that.
