On 22-Feb-2002 Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > 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.) >
this could work too. > > But I am not sure if xprop(1) can return all that; it does offer > "_BLACKBOX_ATTRIBUTES" and "WM_STATE" and more. > xprop has all of the information it seems. > 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? > I believe KDE and GNOME can do this. The key is every program must use common code. X has a Session Management library too. But no one links to it and uses its functions. > Or is session management always about placing the "windows" at the same > places with the same attributes? > this is what people usually want having come from window maker or elsewhere. > 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? > they are referring to the X Session, ie this instance of X running.
