Re: Preserved Window Placement

[Havoc Pennington <hp pobox com>]

The XSMP spec is more or less impossible to make sense out of. But to
the extent people have tried, it has not been a useful undertaking.

Here's one old thread: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79285

There are certainly useful things to do related to session management
and state saving, but getting XSMP involved is a good way to fail
immediately. Just define what behavior you want and then implement it
in a *sensible* way. XSMP is not a sensible way to implement
*anything* and in the history of Linux we have never had a reasonable
implementation of it.

Window managers that do a relatively nice job saving window states
have done so with heuristics and hacks and manual configuration, not
by relying on specs. They were solving problems in spite of XSMP not
because of it.

Havoc

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk> wrote:
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> - The session manager which needs to store all this information away
>   somewhere, and also use it as necessary to restore session state
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