[PATCH] compositor: pass options to the shell process, v2

[Bill Spitzak]

Making a switch that passes all *remaining* arguments to the shell  
would be better because it avoids quoting issues and makes it trivial  
to edit a call to the shell into a call to the compositor.

Ie:

     wayland-compositor -x -y -b blah -x bar

This makes the compositor get the -x and -y switches, and the shell  
get "blah -x bar" as it's arguments.

The only problem with this is that only one such switch can be  
specified at a time.

On Nov 7, 2011, at 1:06 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:

> When desktop-shell was changed to be launched by the compositor alone,
> we also lost the opportunity to give it arguments, specifically the
> background picture.
>
> Add the compositor option -b (--shell-options) for passing arguments  
> to
> the shell process. The parameter to -b is a comma-separated list of
> arguments to the shell.
>
> Option -b cannot be used multiple times, and it cannot be used to pass
> arguments containing commas to the shell.