Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-04 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
Ivan Solution?: create a program (update-dm?) that would pull Ivan the current list of window/session-managers installed on the Ivan system and build the appropriate config files for whichever You should probably consider whether this program ought to simply be update-menu.

dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
Hi, Branden and I discussed the issue of dm's that have wm lists to choose from several months ago. At that time he thought that maybe the update-menu type of approach would be a good way to solve this. I'd like to restate what my understanding of the problem and current suggested solution

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:11:19AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: Hi, Branden and I discussed the issue of dm's that have wm lists to choose from several months ago. At that time he thought that maybe the update-menu type of approach would be a good way to solve this. I'd like to

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: Problem: Desktop Managers like kdm and gdm support Window Manager listings so that users can choose what they want to login in using. There currently is no common way for wm's to register themselves with

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Arthur Korn
Ivan E. Moore II schrieb: I think that this method would probably reduce the amount of possible duplication as long as the update-dm script pulled it's wm listing from /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-window-manager for example. That way the only change any wm would have to do is add a call to

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
Sven LUTHER wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:11:19AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: Hi, Branden and I discussed the issue of dm's that have wm lists to choose from several months ago. At that time he thought that maybe the update-menu type of approach would be a good way to

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Sam Hartman
Ivan == Ivan E Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivan Solution?: create a program (update-dm?) that would pull Ivan the current list of window/session-managers installed on the Ivan system and build the appropriate config files for whichever You should probably consider whether this

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:11:19AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: Problem: Desktop Managers like kdm and gdm support Window Manager listings so that users can choose what they want to login in using. There currently is no common way for wm's to register themselves

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:11:19AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: Problem: Desktop Managers like kdm and gdm support Window Manager listings so that users can choose what they want to login in using. There currently is no common way for wm's to register

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:20:55PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: Since every window manager / session manager is already registered with the alternatives system, I see no reason why the other display managers can't do what wdm already does. It includes a script, update_wdm_wmlist which