Re: Correct way to start Gnome?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

You can set a list of non session aware applications to be started by
gnome-session, and your window manager would be a good thing to put in it.
This way your WM would get killed when you log out using the panel (note
that it would not die gracefully -- it would loose its connection to the X
server and get an IO error.  This may be a problem ... I don't know.  I
don't know if gnome-session has support for restarting non session aware
clients though.

James Henstridge.

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On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Allan Third wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > >>> "AM" == Adam Moyes <adam@macfar.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > 
> > AM> I hope this point hasn't already been made, but I saw something
> > AM> earlier that indicated that all you had to do was exec
> > AM> gnome-session and once that is running, execute your window
> > AM> manager etc. and shutdown gnome. The next time you run up your
> > AM> session, gnome-session will start it for you.
> > 
> > This is the method I currently use, and it's working good.  I had some 
> > problems a couple weeks ago, with an earlier version of Enlightenment, 
> > but things seem up to form now.
> 
> The thing is, that only really works for Enlightenment, as far as I can
> tell, and I don't really want to use that. Would it be possible to specify a
> window manager in some config file for gnome-session, so that gnome-session
> starts (and hence also closes) the window manager with the logout button?
> Similarly, it could detect when the window manager process dies (e.g. due to
> user picking an "Exit" menu option) and (at least optionally) close itself
> when that happens. As far as I can see (although I'm not a programmer) that
> shouldn't be TOO hard to do.
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Allan
> 
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