On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:21:06PM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:08:41PM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 10:06:34AM -0400, Tessa Lau wrote:
> > > I'm installing Debian unstable and the latest GNOME2 desktop on a
> > > friend's system, and I'm trying to convince him to see the light and
> > > switch from sawfish to fvwm2.  However I'm running into a few bugs with
> > > the GNOME2 integration.  I'm using a freshly built fvwm 2.5.7.
> > > 
> > > I switch to fvwm by killing sawfish and running fvwm2, then saving my
> > > session.  The first time after I log out and log back in with fvwm, the
> > > GNOME menu panel, which is always at the top of the screen, has been
> > > relocated to the bottom of the screen.  The bottom edge panel has been
> > > relocated to the top of the screen.  The menu panel cannot be moved.  If
> > > I move the bottom edge panel down to the bottom of the screen where it
> > > belongs, it gets hidden behind the menu panel, and is lost forever.
> > >
> > 
> > It is a fvwm bug. I hope that we will be able to fix it soon.
> > 
> > I switch to the fvwm-workers list.
> > 
> > The problem is simple: all gnome panels have the same name, icon name,
> > res name and class name! So when we restore the window state fvwm/session.c
> > is unable to make the distinction between all the gnome panels.
> > 
> > Any idea for a fix?
> >
> 
> The obvious idea after reading the SM spec (and the ICCCM2) is to use
> the SM_CLIENT_ID property (on a possible WM_CLIENT_LEADER window) But,
> at first view the gnome panels have no SM_CLIENT_ID set!!  I think
> that sawfish, metacity, icewm and kwin simply ignore window without
> the SM_CLIENT_ID property set (on the client leader) regarding session
> management.
> 
> I think we should add the SM_CLIENT_ID as the main identifier in
> the session code and either:

Ok sorry it is already the case.

>  - do not reset "session state" for windows with an identifier
>    (sm client id, name ...etc) with two matching identifiers in the
>    session window list.
> or
>  - simply do not save/restore state for window without SM_CLIENT_ID.
>

Regards, Olivier 
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