A global window manager environment variable

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Tue Apr 24 08:55:46 PDT 2007


nyu 2 wrote:
> Config options like PAGER, or EDITOR?

I don't think anything graphical should be using those. They are fine 
for terminal apps.

> If this had already existed, then Beryl wouldn't have had to be set up 
> to do odd things to start up the first time. 
> 

Such as what? Beryl should just support --replace and then you do:

  $ beryl --replace
  $ gnome-session-save

or the KDE equivalent. You don't even have to log out (as you do with an 
env variable)

Havoc




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