Re: [PATCH] use xrdb -nocpp when possible

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 15:29 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le mardi 18 octobre 2005 à 13:10 +0200, Rodrigo Moya a écrit :
> 
> > Attached patch makes xrdb use the -nocpp option when possible, in 2 of
> > the 3 executions, where we are just passing built input, with no
> > #define's at all, to xrdb.
> 
> hi,
> 
> The patch is fine by me.
> 
ok, committed to HEAD.

> > gdm itself runs xrdb for the ~/.Xresources file, so, not sure if we can
> > remove that file from gnome-settings-xrdb.c.
> 
> Some people run GNOME without gdm, is that something we want to
> consider? Or we just say people who decide to not use the official
> window manager accept that?
> 
I don't think we want to force people to use gdm. But, in suse at least,
all desktops are started via a common script, which runs
those .Xresources files.

But on d-d-l it was pointed out that the .Xresources processing in g-s-d
does much more than the system-wide one.

> 
> > I was planning to execute the xrdb thing in g-s-xrdb.c in a timeout, but
> > from what was said in d-d-l, we really need to execute xrdb before any
> > motif app is started. Any comments?
> 
> I agree with the points mentioned on the desktop list. Applications
> registred with the session have to be started after the xrdb setting. Is
> it easy to start the desktop/panel/nautilus, then xrdb and then the apps
> registred with the session? 
> 
with the new gnome-session-manager, that would be possible. For the
current one, we can just change it to run gnome-settings-daemon before
anything else.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>