Re: multiscreen execing functions

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 02:32, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> 	In the course of doing panel and nautilus multihead support
> the need for some variants of the gnome-exec and gspawn functions were
> needed. Basically, they change the DISPLAY var of the child process so
> that its default screen is the one specified in the GdkScreen arg.
> 
> 	I guess the only sensible place for this is in libgnomeui and
> that if Anders is willing to sponsor they should go into libegg for
> the moment.
> 
> 	I've attached the implementations.
> 
> 	Thoughts, anyone ? Anders ?

why do you want to export the env and display string functions?

and why have the shell function?

[ why not just extend all of the gspawn functions? ]

 - jacob