On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, tp40 wrote:
> desire to have elementary session management in bb. I'm curently in the
> process of combining ROX and bb, and so far it seems to be working quite
> well. ROX manages your session - i.e. if blackbox exits, X still keeps
> running, ROX will ask you for a new WM to run. I like ROX a lot, I just
I simply use a rxvt term (at the end of my .xinitrc file). So when
blackbox crashes, I can simply restart it again and all my apps are still
the same.
What is the real definition of session management?
Is it like VNC where you can log in and log out from various hosts and the
same apps are always running?
Or is it where just certain X clients are remembered and when the X stops
and started again later the X clients are started in same place?
Or does session management tell the X clients what they were doing
before? (For example, editing a certian file and the cursor in the same
place, or playing a video with it paused at the exact same moment. This
seems like this could be potentially dangerous.)
And if so, how is this possible? (I guess some protocol that the X clients
would have to know.)
Is there any tool that looks at all applications (like xwininfo) records
the details and so next time the X starts up, it can restart all the
windows the same?
Jeremy C. Reed
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