Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:22:06 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gnome-session 2.4 no longer runs $HOME/.gnomerc Message-ID: <1064341326.743.53.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <3F708B62.4050205@mail.flyingcroc.net> References: <3F7077F3.5080502@mail.flyingcroc.net> <3F707BCE.6010205@mail.flyingcroc.net> <3F7082A1.1040102@mail.flyingcroc.net> <3F708B62.4050205@mail.flyingcroc.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 14:05, Joe Kelsey wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > Like I said in my previous email, it looks like you'd need to create a > > /usr/X11R6/etc/dm/Sessions .desktop file that has an Exec action of > > customer. However, in poking through Xsession some more, you should be > > able to achieve a similar behavior to .gnomerc with ~/.Xclients. > > ssh-agent will then be run with: > > Choose "Default Session" from the GDM Sessions menu, and it tries to run > ~/.Xclients. This bit of information completely eluded me. My > .Xclients script consist of > > #!/bin/ksh > export SHELL=/bin/ksh > umask 2 > echo inside gnomerc > cho ssh agent $SSH_AGENT_PID > if [ -n "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ] > then if [ -f .ssh/identity ] > then ssh-add < /dev/null > fi > fi > export DOTGNOMERC=1 > export GDK_USE_XFT=1 > exec gnome-session > > Basically, just an exact copy of my old .gnomerc. I want to rail > against the gratituitous changing of "features", but since they never > documented the feature to begin with, I guess I cannot complain that > much. It still bugs me how hard the authors made it to trace down all > of the interrelated information necessary to make one simple change. > Just documenting the location of the dm/Sessions files and suggesting > that you might want to copy Default.desktop to Custom.desktop, changing > the "Exec=default" to "Exec=custom" or even just making the > gnome.desktop provide an Exec string to trigger backward-compatible > behavior in Xsession might have helped. The new GDM does come with documentation (in Yelp), and it does touch on Sessions a bit. You might want to check it out. > > I *really*, *really* hate the myriad of interconnected, obscure > configuration files that Gnome uses. It doesn't seem as bad as the > myriad of interconnected shell scripts that CDE uses, but at least with > CDE you can start from the first script and slowly work you way through > all of the interconnected scripts until you find the place you want to > customize. > > Did anyone acutally document the *.desktop files somewhere? They may be documented in general in the GNOME developer docs at gnome.org. However, the GDM docs do touch on the GDM specific options in Yelp. Joe > > /Joe > (Default.desktop give me the behavior I want) > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/cI9Nb2iPiv4Uz4cRAkxpAJ4ieh16YToBcccKinSJp9NX2hcO2gCgn8SF ohRe5ZrQMqDwwY/TdSGLxL8= =Vq7D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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