Re: manager selection for desktop manager
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: Navindra Umanee <navindra cs mcgill ca>
- Cc: xdg-list freedesktop org, wm-spec-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: manager selection for desktop manager
- Date: 22 Aug 2001 15:12:57 -0400
Navindra Umanee <navindra cs mcgill ca> writes:
> Aha, indeed. So it would be useful to handle this similar to what
> window managers do -- abort with an error message if another WM is
> already running. In the case of Nautilus, I suppose it could just
> come up without the desktop manager if it detects another is already
> running.
Right, that's what the "manager selection" would allow us to detect.
For now I'm putting a really, really gruesome hack into Nautilus to
detect kdesktop by walking the X window tree to find it. Yikes!
Havoc
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