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

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Rob Smith wrote:

>On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:46:19 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone
><bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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the same normal user that you say shouldn't have to edit xinitrc 
probably doesn't run multiple desktop environments, and, even if they 
do, i don't see why they wouldn't want a particular app to start with 
all environments.  any case where someone wouldn't, i'd consider an 
unlikely corner case, which i don't think we're interested in covering.

>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?
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your initial email had nothing to do with a patch; it was a bunch of 
questions better suited to the xfce list.

>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.
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and here we apparently have yet another user that can't handle his ideas 
being rejected.  it's great to give feedback; we really do appreciate 
it.  but what i don't appreciate is when someone gets all in a huff when 
we don't agree with your suggestions.  thank you for presenting your 
ideas, and if you were to write a patch, i'd thank you for that as 
well.  but if you want absolute say as to what goes in and what doesn't, 
you gotta do a bit more than that.

regards,
brian