Re: properties commands -- explicit run on startup necessary?

[Toshio Kuratomi <badger prtr-13 ucsc edu>]

I was getting a whole variety of different problems last night.... I put off
finding out what was wrong until this morning because I figured it was
probably something to do with the way I was running it.

But that'll now have to wait as no Gnome programs want to run for me right
now (Any clue why gkt.so.1 and gtk-1.1.so.1 would be linking into my apps?)

So various errors I was getting last night:

1) gnome-session wouldn't save session for all windows.  Is it supposed to as
long as smproxy is running?
1b) Sometimes gnome-session didn't appear to save any session info at all.
Where files does it save to anyway?  I found a .gnome/session file exactly one
time in my messing with gnome-session.  I didn't like it so I deleted it --
never regenerated.

2) save-session logged me out (but maybe this is expected?)

3) panel stopped working once I got gnome-session loading from my .xinit

4) tried exporting the SESSION_MANAGER variable I found in the
~/.xsession.errors file and then running things.  Nothing that needed to
connect to the session manager (ie: panel, save-session) would run fully -
 It would attempt a connection and then go to sleep.  At this point I noticed
that gnome-session was hogging the CPU.  (Maybe I also tried running xclock
and other things at this point and found they wouldn't work with the ENV var
set -- i don't remember.)

Well -- that's all I can recall right now.  I'll give you a real bug report
once I get gnome apps to run again....

One question though:: If I do the following steps, am I running session
management correctly?

In xinitrc or xsession or Xclients:
    eval "fvwm2 ${FVWMOPTIONS} &"
    exec gnome-session

I should now have a desktop with all sorts of wonderful goodies.
When I quit the panel, gnome-session will save state of all windows
(save the fact that they're open at least and create some way to reinvoke?)
and exit?

If I run save-session, it will do the same thing? (save state and exit X?)

I don't have to explicitly set the SESSION_MANAGER variable?

Will processes invoked by my window manager on startup be session-managed?

-Toshio
    
On Thu, 14 May, 1998 at 01:29:08PM -0600, Tom Tromey set free these words:
> Toshio> Thanks!  I guess the next step would be finding out why
> Toshio> gnome-session doesn't work yet ....
> 
> What happens when you try to run it?
> 
> Tom

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