Re: Recommended gnome startup

[Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe orcus priv at>]

Hi,

>>>>> On 05 Feb 1999 14:03:42 +0000
>>>>> Martin Soto <masoto@uniandes.edu.co> said:

 Martin> Isn't this going to be too complex for the standard Gnome
 Martin> luser? One thing that worries me is that exiting or killing
 Martin> most window managers is an easy thing to do (even by
 Martin> accident) and that may be very annoying for non experienced
 Martin> users.

 Martin> I think the only way to avoid this problem would be to add
 Martin> special support for the window manager to gnome-session. The
 Martin> idea would be to guarantee that a window manager will always
 Martin> be running, so that if the running one is killed or dies due
 Martin> to a bug a fresh one will be automatically started.

Session Management already has the tools. scwm sets the
RestartStyleHint to "Restart Immediately", so if it is killed or dies
unexpectedly, the session manager immediately restarts it (there
should be some kind of loop-protection like in init, though). If you
deliberately end scwm, it removes the property first, nothing is
restarted then. I think this is reasonable behaviour for a wm.

	Robbe

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