Debian first experience made a bit easier...

[Rask Ingemann Lambertsen]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 08:09:33PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:23:58PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > > For example, it's nice that mokomaze is in debian, but if you install
> > > it and run it, you will get your screen blanked after a minute. To
> > > avoid that, one needs to start mokomaze under fsoraw wrapper. Making
> > > this happen automatically while staying within debian policy could be
> > > a challenge: debian package is not for freerunner only, modifying
> > > files installed by other packages (hi hi appraw) is denied by policy,
> > > etc
> >
> >    Why would you need to? You can create another package, with a
> > dependency on mokomaze and fsoraw, to install the necessary .desktop
> > file.
> 
> Why would I need what?

   Why would you need to modify files installed by other packages? Just
create a package with this as
/usr/share/applications/mokomaze-noblank.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Mokomaze (no blanker)
Comment=Ball-in-the-labyrinth game
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=0.5
Type=Application
Exec=fsoraw -r Display -- mokomaze
Terminal=false
Categories=Game;
X-MB-SingleInstance=true
Icon=mokomaze

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