Re: multiscreen execing functions

jacob berkman <[email protected]> 27 Jun 2002 10:19:26 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.lib.devel
Organization	Ximian, Inc.
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On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 02:32, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> 	In the course of doing panel and nautilus multihead support
> the need for some variants of the gnome-exec and gspawn functions were
> needed. Basically, they change the DISPLAY var of the child process so
> that its default screen is the one specified in the GdkScreen arg.
> 
> 	I guess the only sensible place for this is in libgnomeui and
> that if Anders is willing to sponsor they should go into libegg for
> the moment.
> 
> 	I've attached the implementations.
> 
> 	Thoughts, anyone ? Anders ?

why do you want to export the env and display string functions?

and why have the shell function?

[ why not just extend all of the gspawn functions? ]

 - jacob