Re: Detecting GNOME

[ghee teo <Ghee Teo Sun COM>]

Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 21:22 +0200, Tomasz Melcer wrote:
>
>  
>
> >  Is there a simple way to check if GNOME manages an X display?
> >    
>
> This is something that people have requested when looking at the GNOME
> ISV guide.
>
> Maybe we should have gnome-session set a property on the root window,
> pointing to an invisible window of its own.  That window should in turn
> have the same property pointing to the window itself.
>  
 This works for as long as gnome-session or whatever session manager is
used in GNOME. I am for this suggestion [1].
 Of course, the same property could be ported over to the next generation
of session manager.

-Ghee

[1] In JDS, we simply set a atom by the name of "GNOME_SM_DESKTOP"
on the root window for legacy apps to ping that the session is GNOME.
Though this is not as sophiscated as you suggested, but we do document this
as a interface.



>  Federico
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