[ icewm-Patches-1010258 ] "startup" not executed
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2004-08-17 10:36:44
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Patches item #1010258, was opened at 2004-08-16 21:55 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by hirogen2 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300031&aid=1010258&group_id=31 Category: bugfix Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jan Engelhardt (hirogen2) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: "startup" not executed Initial Comment: Hello, the "startup" script which is mentioned in the manpage/html pages (~/.icewm/startup) is not executed when I -- or more precisely -- XDM/KDM starts icewm. I found out that startup is executed when "icewm-session" is, but unfortunately, icewm-session is not executed for my distribution (SuSE 9.1 Professional). Furthermore, they packaged icewm-session into a "icewm-gnome" subpackage (there is also "icewm-default" and "icewm" (base)). Since I do not use GNOME, and as such don't have that installed, so is the icewm-gnome package. Anyway, even with icewm-gnome package I seriously doubt that KDM/XDM would start icewm-session, since *DM simply execute /usr/X11R6/bin/<NameOfTheWm>, and that location in X11R6/bin can't be changed, i.e. if your filename differs from the name of the WM, you're screwed. Blah, to sum it up, startup is not run. And here's a [not perfect, if I may add] patch to fix it. (*) http://linux01.org:2222/f/hxtools/patches/icewm-runstartup.diff ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Jan Engelhardt (hirogen2) Date: 2004-08-17 12:36 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=522048 Yeah I really wondered too, because on some SuSE installations, the default icewm theme is shown (cyan windows-like background, gray theme). Must be my ~/.icewm/preferences maybe. I'll go and check that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Eduard Bloch (thefirstone) Date: 2004-08-17 11:11 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=935104 I disagree too. The distributor is the only one to blame for your problems, and icewm package itself is easy customiseable. And it provides enough documentation to do it right. And the change has been announced often enough. Please submit your bug report to the SuSE maintainer, (s)he should care more. They can get Debian's .desktop files (for recent KDM/GDM) from http://svn.debian.org/viewcvs/pkg-icewm/icewm/trunk/debian/gdm/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Adam Pribyl (covexx) Date: 2004-08-17 10:41 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=607018 I do not think this is good idea. icewm binary is window manager itself, icewm-session is designed to process all session stuff. You should be able modify starting scripts in your distro (as all *DMs are using some kind of scripts structure like /etc/X11/gdm). Also you should notice the packager of your distro of this problem. BTW: KDE is started by "startkde", gnome is started by "gnome-session", though *DM can hardly start only ..bin/<nameofwm>. If it is not somehow modified in SuSE... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300031&aid=1010258&group_id=31 |