On Thursday 02 May 2002 07:24, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> As for remembering the window size/location/etc no that is > >> not in blackbox and I do not plan to add it. We talked > >> this over about two months ago and some people were > >> hashing out code ideas. Hopefully something will rise up. > > > > Hope so. Some apps (like SciTE) has it's own setting to > > remember > > it's position and size. But most others do not, and it is > > getting annoying. > > I know in Gnome's default wm, there is a setting to remember > > this stuff, > > but I think this is just specific to sawfish, and nothing > > really to do with Gnome. > > I was wondering, though, if the bb Gnome patch, would have > > something to > > do with that....but I can't get to the site....argh! > > maintaining that info is called "session management". If an external > program does it there must be communication between it and the wm. I am > not aware of GNOME having an external session manager, but it is > possible.
gnome does have it's own, separate session manager, called gnome-session. KDE uses ksmserver. > Also note that as of GNOME v2 they use netwm and not the GNOME only WIN > protocol. So the GNOME patch is rapidly becoming obsolete. thankfully ;) -- Bradley T. Hughes - bhughes at trolltech.com Trolltech AS - Waldemar Thranes gt. 98 N-0175 Oslo, Norway
