Custom Query (1145 matches)

Reported by jdreed, 15 years ago.

Per discussion at release team, we need a way to identify what Athena is being used for. To start with, we need to be able to differentiate between "Email", "Web", "Academic Software" (defined as some popular -thirdparty packages), and "Other". Possibly also "Writing Code".

Reported by geofft, 15 years ago.

My .bash_environment contains in part:

add windowmanagers
export WINDOW_MANAGER=ratpoison
skip_panel=1
skip_nautilus=1
skip_initial_xterm=1

This suffices to get me ratpoison on -cluster and below on Intrepid (and on Athena 9), but not on Jaunty. I've also heard reports from others that WINDOW_MANAGER doesn't work for them.

Since it works on up-to-date Intrepid systems, this is something Ubuntu changed; we should figure out what it is and work around it.

Reported by geofft, 15 years ago.

Essentially all non-GNOME sessions want you to start off with a terminal, which Debian makes sure is x-terminal-emulator, which is gnome-terminal. At some point between Intrepid and Jaunty, gnome-terminal started failing to launch if gnome-settings-daemon isn't running, rather than just launching with vaguely ugly default settings. This is pretty poor for the usability

We should figure out what's going on here, and work around it somehow, e.g.:

• Figure out if there's a setting or environment variable to make the lack of gnome-settings-daemon noncritical, or to make it spawn if needed.
• Start gnome-settings-daemon in every session.
• Make the non-GNOME sessions use xterm instead.