On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> bbsnapshot has a loop kind of like this:
...
> on exit the program should write out the list as well.

Or maybe a simple shell tool using xlsclients and xprop could do
this? (But not runing all the time.)

> the file could be in most any format it just needs to store:
> 
> application name
> command line
> workspace
> shaded
> omnipresent
> decorated
> maximized
> geometry

But I am not sure if xprop(1) can return all that; it does offer
"_BLACKBOX_ATTRIBUTES" and "WM_STATE" and more.

I haven't really used an desktop environment/manager that provides session
management that keeps track of the data used by applications. Examples:
a word processor that will reopen to exact documents, cursor at same spot
and temporary settings (like font size); or a email client that when
reopened will open to show same screen/messages as before and if composing
cursor will be in the same spot (automatically); or a browser when
reopened will show the webpage it was previously at (from cache) at the
same spot.

Is there and software (with desktop manager) that does that?

Or is session management always about placing the "windows" at the same
places with the same attributes?

It is a little confusing, because it seems that X and xdm have another
definition of "session management". I am curious: how does xdm and XDMCP
sessions relate to this?

  Jeremy C. Reed

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