wm-properties .desktop file for xfwm4?

[Olivier]

Simon,

We do provide .desktop files with the currect CVS HEAD version, but I'm
afraid that won't be backported to the 4.0 branch.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 23:26, Simon Huggins wrote:
> A user suggested that xfwm4 ship with a .desktop file in order that when
> you use it with gnome for instance that you can better configure it if
> you ship one.
> 
> I've left his comments and the suggested .desktop file below.
> 
> I'd package this with xfwm4 in Debian but I'm not sure I should.
> Obviously you lot don't ship one but if it allows better integration
> then that wouldn't necessarily stop me if I thought it was right.  The
> problem I have is I can't see "ConfigExec" or for that matter
> SessionManaged and the [WindowManager] part anywhere in the .desktop
> spec on www.freedesktop.org.
> 
> It semms very gnome specific.  Is this something you'd look to add or is
> this something you think is evil, bad and wrong?
> 
> I'm just curious as to whether this is likely to become an adopted
> standard or not I guess.
> 
> > xfwm4 is very good for use as window manager for Gnome2. For convenient
> > configuration, gnome-window-properties should call 'xfce-setting-show
> > xfwm4'. This can be achieved by creating the file
> > /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties/Xfwm4.desktop with content similar to
> > this (stolen from sawfish and modified):
> 
> ,----[ Xfwm4.desktop ]-
> | [Desktop Entry]
> | Name=Xfwm4
> | Exec=xfwm4
> | TryExec=xfwm4
> | ConfigExec=xfce-setting-show xfwm4
> | Terminal=false
> | MultipleArgs=false
> | 
> | [Window Manager]
> | SessionManaged=true
> `----
> 
> Simon.
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