Xinerama and Compose, Screen Placement Issues, other small things...

[Rob Smith]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:46:19 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone
<bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> why?  ~/Desktop/Autostart is sufficient.  a patch for this isn't likely
> to be accepted, especially since we don't use the ~/.xfce4 dir anymore.

As for this issue, Sure, ~/Desktop/Autostart works if you want the
same apps to autostart no matter what WM your using. Kde uses
~/.kde/Autostart and (iirc) Gnome uses ~/.gnome/Autostart, And other
WM's have default autostart up locations that only apply for that
single WM. I just don't think that scripting xinitrc is a good
solution for the normal user where a simple patch would allow this
functionality.

I guess I'm wondering, is there any reason why not to add this
functionality? Will it serriosuly slow down the startup of the WM? Or
is it just a personal call? A meh why bother?

And for example, you pointed me towards the user list, so I should
have coded this patch and just get turned down and just waste all that
time? I understand it's a simple patch, but if I can't get any
feedback on if something's worth working on or not, why should I spend
any time helping out?

Like I said before, I guess you guys really don't want people to help
out. This will be the last thread I post in and I won't bother writing
anything for you guys if that's really how it is.

Thanks,
~Rob