Re: wmmail and session management

[Paul Warren <pdw ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Dave wrote:

> Maybe since it is registering with gnome-session, you should set it to not
> start up when *Window Maker* starts, since gnome will take care of it for
> you?

Except that Window Maker's session management is superior to Gnome's in
that gnome-session does not remember *where* windows were when they were
closed down.  Which is very useful for making my root-tailing wterm appear
in the corner where I want it.

Paul

> On 6 May 1999, Edouard Lafargue wrote:

> >   I use Windowmaker with Gnome, and I ran into problems with wmmail:
> > 
> >  - I have some dock apps that are started by Window Maker, like wmmon,
> >  wmint, etc. They don't cause any  problem as they  are not noticed by
> >  the session manager (gnome-session).
> > 
> >  - However, wmmail,   which  is  also started   from the   dock,  gets
> >  registered into  the session manager  !  The consequence is that next
> >  time I log on, I get the normal wmmail  that is launched by the dock,
> >  plus a second  one which is launched  by the session manager. And the
> >  next time, of course, I get four copies of wmmail, and so on !
> > 
> >  Does  this happen to anyone  else ?  I  haven't been able to find the
> >  reason  for this behaviour...  It would be nice to  be able to have a
> >  setting in  the session manager  to specify  the  name of programs to
> >  ignore for session management.
> > 
> >  OK, maybe I   should port wmmail to   a  panel applet, but as   panel
> >  applets take  about 2Mb of  RAM and most  dock apps take about 300ko,
> >  I'm not about  to add anything to the  panel if I can  get it on  the
> >  dock...
> > 
> > Ed
> > 
> > 
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