Re: SESSION_MANAGER environment vriable not defined (was Gnome compliant window manager)



On Wed, 27 May 1998, FT Rathore wrote:

> 
> I tested with IceWM and it seem to be working fine, the pager applet does
> well. But I have another questio.
The pager applet works??? I running IceWM, and it don't work! or does it
only work iwth the development version?? (i'm using 0.8.16, not 0.9.2)

> 
> Does gnome Implement session management (See X11/SM), because it seems
> does expects a session manager to be running. And the call to
> 
> SmcOpenConnection()
> fails and sets the error_string as
> SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined
> 
> Does anybody know the status (Is anybody working on it). I would be glad
> to work on this part.
> 
> On 27 May 1998, Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> > Ed> What issues are involved with a Gnome compliant window manager?  I
> 
> > 1. Implement the extended wm hints as specified by Marko (the icewm
> > author).  The spec was posted to this list.  I don't actually know if
> > Gnome uses these hints yet, but presumably it will some day.
> > 
> > 2. Implement the client side of session management, per the X Session
> > Management Protocol spec.  As far as I know icewm is the only wm that
> > does this.
> > 
> > Tom
> 
> 
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