Re: wmmail and session management

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

There is nothing wrong with GNOME's session management in this reguard.
According to the SM specs, it is a session manager compliat window manager
that is supposed to handle saving window positions.  So if window maker
was a session client, it would be responsible for saving the positions
(window position and desktop) of all windows.

It would be incorrect for gnome applications or the session manager itself
to try to save and restore window positions.

James.

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On Fri, 7 May 1999, Paul Warren wrote:

> 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
> > >