Also install /usr/share/applications/i3.desktop

With this file, you can use the following command to run i3 in GNOME:

    gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager i3 --type string

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4e55b2e18a156235acf912bf2b59600ff6fa2c54..6e595de7b17c454948f67fb4449bcea6d1996ddf 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ install: all
        $(INSTALL) -d -m 0755 $(DESTDIR)$(SYSCONFDIR)/i3
        $(INSTALL) -d -m 0755 $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/include/i3
        $(INSTALL) -d -m 0755 $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/xsessions
+       $(INSTALL) -d -m 0755 $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/applications
        $(INSTALL) -m 0755 i3 $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/
        $(INSTALL) -m 0755 i3-migrate-config-to-v4 $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/
        $(INSTALL) -m 0755 i3-sensible-editor $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/
@@ -106,7 +107,8 @@ install: all
        test -e $(DESTDIR)$(SYSCONFDIR)/i3/config || $(INSTALL) -m 0644 i3.config $(DESTDIR)$(SYSCONFDIR)/i3/config
        test -e $(DESTDIR)$(SYSCONFDIR)/i3/config.keycodes || $(INSTALL) -m 0644 i3.config.keycodes $(DESTDIR)$(SYSCONFDIR)/i3/config.keycodes
        $(INSTALL) -m 0644 i3.welcome $(DESTDIR)$(SYSCONFDIR)/i3/welcome
-       $(INSTALL) -m 0644 i3.desktop $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/xsessions/
+       $(INSTALL) -m 0644 i3.xsession.desktop $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/xsessions/i3.desktop
+       $(INSTALL) -m 0644 i3.applications.desktop $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/applications/i3.desktop
        $(INSTALL) -m 0644 include/i3/ipc.h $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/include/i3/
        for dir in $(SUBDIRS); do \
                $(MAKE) -C $$dir install; \
@@ -116,7 +118,7 @@ dist: distclean
        [ ! -d i3-${VERSION} ] || rm -rf i3-${VERSION}
        [ ! -e i3-${VERSION}.tar.bz2 ] || rm i3-${VERSION}.tar.bz2
        mkdir i3-${VERSION}
-       cp i3-migrate-config-to-v4 generate-command-parser.pl i3-sensible-* i3.config.keycodes DEPENDS GOALS LICENSE PACKAGE-MAINTAINER RELEASE-NOTES-${VERSION} i3.config i3.desktop i3.welcome pseudo-doc.doxygen i3-wsbar Makefile i3-${VERSION}
+       cp i3-migrate-config-to-v4 generate-command-parser.pl i3-sensible-* i3.config.keycodes DEPENDS GOALS LICENSE PACKAGE-MAINTAINER RELEASE-NOTES-${VERSION} i3.config i3.xsession.desktop i3.applications.desktop i3.welcome pseudo-doc.doxygen i3-wsbar Makefile i3-${VERSION}
        cp -r src libi3 i3-msg i3-nagbar i3-config-wizard i3bar i3-dump-log yajl-fallback include man parser-specs i3-${VERSION}
        # Only copy toplevel documentation (important stuff)
        mkdir i3-${VERSION}/docs

diff --git a/i3.applications.desktop b/i3.applications.desktop
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..4dfa7e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/i3.applications.desktop
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+[Desktop Entry]
+Type=Application
+Encoding=UTF-8
+Name=i3
+Comment=improved dynamic tiling window manager
+Exec=i3
+X-GNOME-WMName=i3
+X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=WindowManager
+X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager
+X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=false

diff --git a/i3.desktop b/i3.desktop
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index abe9e5f..0000000
--- a/i3.desktop
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-[Desktop Entry]
-Encoding=UTF-8
-Name=i3
-Comment=improved dynamic tiling window manager
-Exec=i3
-Type=XSession

diff --git a/i3.xsession.desktop b/i3.xsession.desktop
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..abe9e5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/i3.xsession.desktop
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[Desktop Entry]
+Encoding=UTF-8
+Name=i3
+Comment=improved dynamic tiling window manager
+Exec=i3
+Type=XSession