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On 06/02/13 20:15, Andre Kl￤rner wrote:
> Hi Rainer,
>
Hi Andre
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 04:09:48PM +0100, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> I am using dex for autostart applications and I have the following in my
>> rc.lua:
>>
>> awful.util.spawn_with_shell("gnome-settings-daemon && dex -a -e Awesome")
>>
>> Now I have two problems:
>>
>> 1) When I change the screen setup via e.g. arandr / xrandr, awesome is
>> restarted and
>> consequently dex is executed as well. This causes multiple instances of e.g.
>> skype and other
>> programs to run which are started via sutostart and dex. Is there a way that
>> I can tell
>> awesome to only execute dex, when it hasn't been executed before?
>> Effectively a run-once for
>> dex, but as dex is not running anymore (and only doing the autostart), the
>> approaches
>> described in the wiki wont work. Any suggestions?
>
> Maybe run dex just from the ~/.Xsession and not from the awesome-config?
I sometimes use other WN - so it won't work for me. In addition, I prefer to
have the whole
awesome config together in one place.
> Or put your call to dex into a script that checks the value of
> /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id
> against a .cache/awesome/dex-last-boot-uuid and if they match don't start it.
This sounds interesting. But I have to write the value
.cache/awesome/dex-last-boot-uuid myself -
correct? I think I will try this approach.
>
>>
>> 2) in the autostart I have nitrogen for setting the background of my dual
>> monitor setup
>> independently fr each monitor. Now gnome-settings-daemon is setting the
>> background as well,
>> and most of the time gnome-settings-daemon has finished setting the
>> background before
>> nitrogen is called and everything is fine. But sometimes this is not the
>> case, and
>> gnome-settings-daemon is resetting the desktop. Is there a way that I can
>> make sure that
>> nirtogen is executed after gnome-settings-daemon is completely started?
>
> Well, I think there was a setting to prevent gnome-settings-daemon from
> drawing the wallpaper.
>
> Gconf-Key: /desktop/gnome/background/draw_background (accessible with
> gconf-editor) Dconf-Key:
> org.gnome.desktop.background (accessible with dconf-editor)
>
> Both are bools that you just need to toggle so gnome-settings-daemon stops if
> forever.
OK - done and working. Perfect.
I changed both - but I assume one is gnome3 and the other an older version -
correct?
Thanks a lot,
Rainer
>
> Regards, Andre
>
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