Re: strange session management stuff

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Saving the scrollback buffer of gnome-terminal is easy.  Getting
gnome-terminal to save the current working directory of a shell is more
difficult, but could be done portably using libgtop (I think -- does it
support finding the CWD?).  It would take a lot more work to get SM
support in all console applications though.

It would be nice to support the first two though.

James.

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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, James Aylett wrote:

> 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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