Re: Correct way to start Gnome?

[Allan Third <allan grelb src gla ac uk>]

Hi,

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, James Henstridge wrote:
>
> 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.

So is that how Enlightenment manages to do it? I'd have thought one of the
conditions for a window manager to be "Gnome compliant" (however unsettled
that definition may still be) would be that it would have to be session
aware, and capable of the sort of interaction described by AM below.


> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Allan Third wrote:
> > > >>> "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.

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