Re: Correct way to start Gnome?

[Brady Hegberg <bradyh bitstream net>]

It seems to me that there should be a setting under gnome control center
for listing programs to be started when gnome-session is run.  Along the
lines of the windows startup directory.  Adding to this list could possibly
just change .xinitrc.  This should include an option for starting apps
asynchronously (with the "&") or not and whether they should start
minimized/maximized/normal...  (I'm sure there are other desired toggles too.)

I realize there is a feature freeze (sortof) but it strikes me that having
to edit a text file to get the desired effect is not the way things should
be in a GUI and is therefore a bug.

Brady Hegberg

>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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