Re: [Fluxbox-users] Gnome support

[Simon B. <si...@cs...>]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Joseph Ritz wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:25:55 +0200
> Jouni Tapio Rinne <jou...@lu...> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm doing some experiments with different compilation options. What
> > does the option '--enable/disable-gnome' actually do? I don't see any
> > difference regardless of whether it is enabled or disabled.
> >
> > Jouni Rinne
> >
>
> My guess (and I emphasize the word "guess") is that with a clean
> installation, enabling gnome at compilation would build a fluxbox
> whose auto-generated menu would be complemented with a submenu of
> Gnome menus. Compiling again without --enable-gnome may not necessarily
> overwrite the previously created menu and the gnome menus may still
> appear. Try a clean compilation with the --disable-gnome option, making
> certain first that all remnant files have been removed or renamed, and
> see if you have a package whose menu does not include the Gnome submenu
> by virtue of the --disable-gnome option. (just a guess, mind you)

Hi,

--enable-gnome enables support for GNOME window hints. These are before
the EWMH standard ones. Things like _WIN_WORKSPACE.

For example, "Eterm -D 2" sets the gnome hint to open on workspace 3 (the
2 is zero indexed).

Same for KDE support (though that also includes kde systray support).

Personally, I don't think you gain much by turning them off - it just
makes some features of some apps not work.

Gnome/KDE menu support is always in fluxbox-generate_menu, but I think you
have to give it flags to actually use it (-g, -k).

Cheers,

 - Simon