Re: Gnome session mgmt vs WindowMaker-gnome session mgmt (Debian Potato)

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

There is a property called WM_ROLE that applications should set on windows
where they have more than one window matching a WM_NAME/WM_CLASS pair.

It is the applications problem if the (name,class,role) is not unique.
Currently there is not many (any?) GNOME applications that set the WM_ROLE
property, so a window manager can't be expected to get these window's
placement correct.  Where there is only a single window matching a
particular (name,class) pair, the window manager should match it correctly
even if there is no WM_ROLE property set on that window.

James.

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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Sarel Botha wrote:

> > 
> > As I understand it, all the Window Manager has to go on when is restoring
> > windows is the title of the window, and its class.  So what happens if,
> > for example, I make a session aware app that has multiple instances open
> > on different workspaces, but with identical titles?  How does the Window
> > Manager know which one to put where?  I am not being difficult - I would
> > honestly like to know how I am supposed to code this.
> 
> I think each window has a name and a title, the title is displayed, but the name hidden, containing maybe more data. Take a look at Eterm + irc themes for example, the title changes for different irc servers but the window manager knows to handle it the same each time. (probably a bad example)
> 
> I'm not 100% sure about this so keep the flame throwers at ease :)
> 
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