On Friday 22 February 2002 20:57, 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.) > > > 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?
this depends on the application actually. an application that supports session management can save all sorts of stuff, like which document was open last, different session settings. etc. > Or is session management always about placing the "windows" at the same > places with the same attributes? session management is more then just putting windows back where they used to be. > 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 -- -- Bradley T. Hughes - bhughes at trolltech.com Trolltech AS - Waldemar Thranes gt. 98 N-0175 Oslo, Norway
