[clfswm-devel] CLFSWM with gnome?

[Geoffrey Ferrari]

Since the latest 1212 release of CLFSWM, I can, in fact, run gnome3 with CLFSWM. This allows me to use all the usual gnome helper utilities e.g. gnome-screensaver, gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-keyring-daemon, etc.

In case anyone else wants this, I include details of my setup below.

Geoffrey

First, I build the clfswm executable in the normal way and install to /usr/local/bin/clfswm. Then I have the following files/contents:

FILE:/usr/share/xsession/clfswm.session
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=clfswm with gnome
Name[en_US]=clfswm with gnome
Comment=A(nother) Common Lisp FullScreen Window Manager
Terminal=false
Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-session-clfswm
TryExec=gnome-session

[Window Manager]
SessionManaged=true

FILE:/usr/bin/gnome-session/clfswm
#!/bin/bash

exec gnome-session --session=clfswm "$@"

exit


FILE:/usr/share/gnome-sessions/sessions/clfswm.session
[GNOME Session]
Name=clfswm
RequiredComponents=gnome-settings-daemon;
RequiredProviders=windowmanager;notifications;
DefaultProvider-windowmanager=clfswm
DefaultProvider-panel=clfswm
DefaultProvider-notifications=notification-daemon

FILE:/usr/share/applications/clfswm.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=clfswm
Comment=A(nother) Common Lisp FullScreen Window Manager
Exec=clfswm

Philippe Brochard <pbrochard at common-lisp.net> writes:

>> Dear CLFSWM developers,
>> 
> Hi,
>
>> Thanks for all your work. Hackable lisp window managers make me happy - and
>> productive.
>> 
> Nice to hear.
>
>> I currently use StumpWM, but I'm intrigued by your project and would like to
>> try it out more seriously. In particular, I'd really like to be able to use
>> CLFSWM as the window manager in a gnome3 session. Currently, however, that
>> doesn't seem to work so well - I attach a copy of my .xsession-errors.
>> 
> I think clfswm cannot run with gnome3 for now. I haven't tried that and
> there is no code to make it run with gnome3. Maybe someone else have
> had success. But I don't know.
>
>> Are others already using CLFSWM with gnome-session? If that's not yet possible,
>> will it become possible?
>> 
> It maybe possible in a next release. But I think there is a lot of work
> to make CLFSWM communicate with outside technologies (ie gnome3, dbus...).
>
>> Thanks again,
>> 
> Sorry for the answer. There is some work do be done!
>
>> Geoffrey Ferrari
>>
> Philippe
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