xfdesktop rewrite done-ish
Brian J. Tarricone
bjt23 at cornell.edu
Mon Jun 7 05:26:08 CEST 2004
hi all-
yesterday i started rewriting xfdesktop, mostly from scratch, and it's
mostly finished now. it wasn't quite as hard as i thought. AFAIK, the
crashing problem is gone, and i suspect that it was originally in the
windowlist code, as after i copied that code verbatim from the old
xfdesktop, the crashing resumed. i backed out to an earlier version of
my new xfdesktop, rewrote the windowlist stuff from scratch, and it was
all better. go figure.
anyway, the main thing missing is a settings plugin, and a way for it to
read stuff from MCS. but it is multihead aware (both xinerama and
non-xinerama), and on startup will set your backdrop and color to the
same thing on each screen. at least that's the theory. also, the
menueditor isn't included in there either. that way i don't have to
merge later.
i stuck a tarball up, please test:
http://spuriousinterrupt.org/xfce4/files/xfdesktop-4.1.4.tar.gz
i'd suggest installing it to /opt or something. if you want to change
the backdrop image or color, open up src/main.c and edit the stuff at
the bottom (under the /* TEST */ comment). hehe.
-brian
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