Re: manager selection for desktop manager

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Navindra Umanee <navindra cs mcgill ca> writes: 
> Aha, indeed.  So it would be useful to handle this similar to what
> window managers do -- abort with an error message if another WM is
> already running.  In the case of Nautilus, I suppose it could just
> come up without the desktop manager if it detects another is already
> running. 

Right, that's what the "manager selection" would allow us to detect. 

For now I'm putting a really, really gruesome hack into Nautilus to
detect kdesktop by walking the X window tree to find it. Yikes!

Havoc