On 22-Feb-2002 Ben Neuman wrote: > Hi, everybody. I've just recently gotten back into using Blackbox - I had > wandered into the dark lands of pwm, ion, and windowmaker before eventually > making it back here, and one thing I missed upon coming back to Blackbox was > the ability to save sessions. Now I'm aware that people feel this shouldn't > be part of the windowmanager, and for the most part I'll agree, but what > programs are there that I can use to save my sessions? I have a few > workspaces that are essentially grids of apps that take a while to or > ganize. So what options do I have? >
Ah, therein lies the rub. Even if a session manager existed which could remember what programs you had open it would not be able to put them on the right workspace without speaking Blackbox's protocol or waiting for NET WM support and supporting that protocol. bblaunch appears to be a good way to get what you want. It launches the program and applies your settings to it. It will require manual setup the first time, but should be pretty easy after that. Someone with a bit of time on their hands could write a program which acted sort of like bbpager but wrote the window settings to a config file. Then bblaunch could read this config file. Something like 'take a snapshot of this workspace'. > P.S. I received a message back from the delivery subsystem telling me my > message is too short. If this was sent twice, sorry. Only came through once.
