Re: [gnome-flashback] [gnome-panel] Pass --session-name from desktop files.

[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com>]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Philipp Kaluza <floss ghostroute eu> wrote:
> Alberts, could you _please_ add a link to the bug in your commit
> messages, so people can find the relevant bugzilla discussions from the
> commit message?

Actually it was my commit message, and I forgot about the bug link (I
usually add that). Sorry.

> In short, I don't think this should ever have passed the bugzilla review
> - there was a reason Jeremy Bicha and myself both independently
> introduced a wrapper script, and that reason is that it is needed - not
> all display managers can pass on parameters in this way. (If memory
> serves, GDM3 is one that cannot, and is most certainly a target DM for us.)

Oh, it worked in my case, but I used lightdm…

> So in short, NAK, I'll revert this.

I think you may want to revert the Compiz/Mutter commits as well, as
they are broken now.

The only solution that comes to my mind is generating multiple
(wrapper script, xsession desktop file, gnome-session desktop file)
sets from .in files, adding different WM names.

--
Dmitry Shachnev