Re: [PATCH] Customizable time format of menu panel clock.

[Mark Gray <markgray iago nac net>]

Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> writes:

> Telsa Gwynne <hobbit@aloss.ukuu.org.uk> writes: 
> > It seems that I get one place to set all this up, and that's 
> > ~/.gnome, and there's no way to say "use .gnome-crapmonitor/"
> > for one, and "use .gnome-prettymonitor/" for another. Am I
> > correct, or is there a way around it? 
> > 
> 
> You could conceivably do something with symlinks... maybe it would work.
> 
> But overall, GConf is designed to fix this problem, though right now
> it doesn't have a good end-user interface for doing so. What interface
> do you think would be good? I mean, where do you want to toggle which
> set of settings you use? Some login script, or a dialog at
> startup... I'm not sure of the best way to do it.

When I used to use fvwm I just had a case statement like so:

case $DISPLAY in
    :0*)
        xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources-1600x1200
        exec fvwm -f ~/.fvwmrc-1600x1200
        ;;
    k6*:0*)
        xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources-1600x1200
        exec fvwm -f ~/.fvwmrc-1600x1200
        ;;
    sx16*:0*)
        xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources-1024x768
        exec fvwm -f ~/.fvwmrc-1024x768
        ;;
    mmx*:0*)

Etc., etc.

Would if be possible to set up gnome to use the directory name passed
to it?  So far I have been rather gingerly using the same ~/.gnome/
and ~/.enlightenment/ directories at the same time for all my
different X servers with few problems, but it would be nice have
custom setups for the big monitors, and color stingy ones for the
8-bpp ones etc. etc.  (Always logging on as the same user is important
to my setup so using different accounts for each would be an extremely
unpleasant compromise.)