ADD marco --shutdown (or --quit) to disable autostart

[allanlaal]

Expected behaviour

when I kill marco, I dont want it to autostart again

Actual behaviour

autostarts

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

kill marco ps axu | fgrep -i marco

MATE general version

1.26

Package version

1.26

Linux Distribution

Ubuntu Mate

Link to bugreport of your Distribution (requirement)

N/A

Use Case

wm testing and development

Default

defaults to off

workaround

I uninstall marco for a few hours

[lukefromdc]

Removing autorestart from marco would mean users who get a crash may not know how to get their window borders back. This could cause inexperienced users to lose their work logging out or even power cycling to get their window borders back. We are not going to remove the default restart of marco for this reason

If you need to run another window manager e.g compiz run it with the --replace option. If you need to run with NO window manager, open dconf-editor, navigate to org/mate/desktop/session/required-components/windowmanager and leave it blank. Setting it to compiz will autostart compiz with the session etc.

[lukefromdc]

A --shutdown or --quit option would be rarely used as --replace is normally used with another window manager and running the MATE session with no window manager is an extremely rare use case though I could see doing this (as with caja or mate-panel) to run it under gdb from the commandline for debugging.

I will not be spending time on coding this, but won't block anyone else coding up such an option either.

[allanlaal]

most window managers dont have their own --replace. marco will race and win

[lukefromdc]

I know for a fact that compiz and icewm support --replace . Note that we have a real issue with team size at this point, we can really use more coders and testers. If anyone wants to code this up I would be willing to test.