[745] in athena10
Let's bring skip_foo and WINDOW_MANAGER to closure.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Thu Dec 18 19:42:41 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:39:44 -0500
To: athena10@mit.edu
I'd like to re-confirm the plan for skip_foo and $WINDOW_MANAGER in
Athena 10:
1. Documented in the old Athena Dotfiles but needing to be flagged as
no longer supported are:
skip_xss
skip_initial_xterm
skip_nautilus
skip_xlogout
skip_dash
skip_panel
skip_capplets
2. twm and mwm are now in debathena-software-extras
3. Currently implemented in Athena 10:
skip_x_startup
skip_quotawarn
skip_authwatch
skip_lert
WINDOW_MANAGER
QUESTION: Are we de-supporting any of the above?
We *DO* need to either warn people that WINDOW_MANAGER is dangerous
if you're using the default xsession with a window manger like
ratpoison that assumes GNOME is not present or document that you need
to create your own .xsession if you plan to use your own window manger.
What exactly do we need to do/say?
-Bill
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