On 28-Jun-2002 jericho wrote: > Does blackbox have support or is support in development for session > management? > I have had a look through the mail archives and I didn't find related > material, please direct me to the correct thread if this has already > been discussed on list. > > I know you can have session management by using blackbox with > gnome/kde, but this defeats the purpose of using a small, stable window > manager. > > If there are no plans for session management in blackbox, or any of the > bbtools, and you do not wish to explain why, can you direct me to some > information which discusses the cons/pros of session management. >
proper session management requires linking with -lSM for *EVERY* X app you want managed *AND* each app making session calls. GNOME/KDE apps do this properly of the rest of the world's X11 apps maybe 10 - 20% do. The author of metacity explains this in his FAQ. If they do not use the SM library you end up playing games with class, name and wm_command to match up applications. We the blackbox authors (and for the most part the user community) like the UNIX philosophy of individual apps who do one thing well. The session management was designed so that it could be integrated or implemented separately. I strongly encourage anyone with a little programming talent and time who cares about this subject to look into implementing their own. It is not that deep into the X11 voodoo.
