Re: [Cooker] Multiples Display Manager - Proposal - Patches - Integrating entrance

[Michael Scherer]

Le Jeudi 26 Mai 2005 21:42, Loic BAUDRY a écrit :
> Hello cookers,
>
>
>
> i tried to use 'entrance' ( e17 display manager ) but i faced some
> problems :
> - drakedm ( mandriva tool to select display manager ) do not know
> 'entrance' existence.
> - dm service don't know how to start 'entrance' because 'prefdm' only
> kwnows some hardcoded display managers.
> - the update wmsession process ('fndSession') only know how to handle
> kdm & gdm updates.
>
> To resolve theses problems, i have written some patches to set up the
> following process :
> - each display manager should drop a config file in a special directory
> ( /etc/X11/dm.d/ in my patches ).
> - prefdm process thoses files to know relations between a dm, a desktop
> and the command to execute.
> - drakedm process thoses files to know description and package for each
> display manager.
> - fndSession process thoses files to know how to update display manager
> wm session list (
> http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/WmsessionConfig#Adding_a_new_dm
> ).

Nice. I hope it will be added.

Fred, what do you think ?

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Michael Scherer