Hi Ben,

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 05:41:31PM -0600, Ben Guitreau wrote:
> I start from console using xinitrc as I don't always need a WM/DE. I've
> never used
> qtile with a login manager, in fact, I can't remember the last time I ever
> used a
> login manager so I wasn't sure how other DMs handled it.
> 
> It looks like I could just add os.environ("XDG_CURRENT_SESSION") = "qtile"
> in my
> /usr/bin/qtile. I haven't tested this thoroughly, but in theory, it is what
> I
> imagine the login manager does to some extent. I'm not so much concerned
> about
> it since the plugin I am using is not my own and I could fork it to work
> when
> I do fresh installs.

Yep, you could also stick

XDG_CURRENT_SESSION=qtile exec qtile

in your ~/.xsession. That said, if there is some documentation
somewhere that says this should be exported by the WM process, I am
happy to make the change.

\t

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