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-

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 > > whi

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 re

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 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 w

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

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 t

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 > ea

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

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