Debian first experience made a bit easier...

Rask Ingemann Lambertsen ccc94453 at vip.cybercity.dk
Mon Sep 14 11:22:16 CEST 2009


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:24:04AM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:52:53PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > > > > That will result in two icons in launchers.
> > > >
> > > > why nor let the user decide on installation or check in postinst for
> > > > arm and copy the matching one?
> > >
> > > Not "for arm" but for "fso-controlled device".
> >
> >    Or more precisely, for "$DISPLAY on fso-controlled device" at
> > runtime, not installation time.
> 
> Cant think out a use case when same device will run a window manager (or 
> whatever component that uses .desktop files) sometimes with fso and 
> sometimes not ...

   Eh? $DISPLAY can point to another device than the one running the window
manager and/or launcher, this setup is standard practice in the X world.
Please refer to e.g. <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_display_manager>.

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