Re: [STUMP] Ubuntu 11.10 and Unity with Stumpwm

[Stephen Balousek]

Hi David,

I do a lot of work on in terminals connected via SSH to remote systems.  
The ssh-agent application is one part of a solution that allows me to 
cache my user credentials in memory.  The other part is 'ssh-add'.  When 
set up correctly, I do not need to type my password every time that I 
use 'ssh' to connect to a remote system.  By loading ssh-agent up front, 
all applications launched from StumpWM will share the same credentials 
cache. So, it's mostly a convenience for my set up.

Adding 'ssh-agent' to stumpwm.desktop is *completely* unnecessary to get 
StumpWM running.  That line can be changed to 'Exec=stumpwm'

Good question
- Steve


On 10/25/2011 06:16 AM, David Bjergaard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can you explain the need to append ssh-agent to stumpwm?
>
> Also, I'm very interested in how unity-2d-panel plays with stumpwm. If
> it doesn I can keep the gnome-panel, but I'm just curious.
>
> I'll try this when I go home today.
>
>       Dave
>
> Stephen Balousek<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > Hi David,
> >
> > You might be missing the session file.  Both GDM and LightDM look in
> > /usr/share/xsessions/ to determine which window managers to allow you
> > to select.
> >
> > Here is the one I created for my 11.10 install:
> >
> > $ cat /usr/share/xsessions/stumpwm.desktop
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Name=Stump Window Manager
> > Comment=StumpWM is a tiling window manager written in Common Lisp
> > Exec=ssh-agent stumpwm
> > TryExec=stumpwm
> > Icon=
> > Type=Application
> >
> > Hope it helps,
> > - Steve
> >
> > On 10/25/2011 01:37 AM, Stefan Reichör wrote:
> > > Hello David!
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I've recently upgraded to ubuntu 11.10 and my previous way of configuring 
> > > > stumpwm as a user session
> > > > got broken.  Has anyone been able to use Stumpwm in 11.10? Do I need to 
> > > > register the window manager
> > > > as alternative with gnome somehow?
> > > AFAICT they use LightDM as session manager. Before GDM was the default.
> > > Perhaps you can install/activate GDM and use the same way to start
> > > Stumpwm as before.
> > >
> > >
> > > Stefan.
> > >
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