Re: strange session management stuff

[James Aylett <dj-gnome insigma com>]

On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 04:16:41PM +0100, Paul Warren wrote:

> > > It would be nice if Miguel took a lead with session management and made
> > > gnome-terminal session aware (saving the scrollback buffer and the pwd, for
> > > example). I think you might also require ssh to be session aware, though?
> >
> > that when gnome-terminal itself saved state it could add state for the
> > program it was running.
> 
> I suspect that the Right Way to do it is to have gnome-terminal act as a
> private session-manager for the program it is running (eg. bash), and to
> make the shells session-aware.  Of course this means making the shells
> dependant on some X libraries (SMlib, ICElib), which in general would be a
> Bad Thing, I suspect.

I would think that the Right Way can't encompass a Bad Thing :)
It should be possible without resorting to X-style session management, I'd
have thought. I'd be very surprised if it were necessary to do that (which
would be horrid, I agree).

James

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