desktop neutral xsettings manager?

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Wed Apr 23 06:07:17 PDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:40:07AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 12:53 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Are you aware of a desktop neutral xsettings manager, like
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xsettings
> > but which would actually look at a config file and stay in the
> > background?
> 
> A 'desktop neutral xsettings manager' is a bit of a misunderstanding.
> The sole purpose of the xsettings spec is to map desktop-specific
> preferences to a common set of agreed-upon xsettings. Thus a xsettings
> manager will always have a desktop-specific component to get the actual
> values.  

Indeed. I meant something that would work with icewm, fluxbox, fvwm...
Any window manager that don't already have a xsettings manager.

--
Pat


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