wm-properties .desktop file for xfwm4?

[Olivier]

This said, if as a packager you think such a thing should be part of the
xfce4-4.0.x package for Debian, that's perfectly fine with me :)

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 23:37, Olivier wrote:
> 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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