Re: wmmail and session management

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

There is such an identifier for distinguishing multiple windows.  It is
the WM_ROLE property.  Generally a window manager can differentiate
between windows by the (class, name, role) combination.  Currently not
many (any?) gnome apps set this property, but the mechanism does exist.

James.

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On Fri, 7 May 1999, Michael ROGERS wrote:
[snip]
> >The window manager saves the window positions or whatever information it 
> >needs to place them where they were.
> 
>  This could be done, but it would require a reliably unique persistent window
> identifier, so that a window could be identified on restart as one of the 
> windows stored in the session. As far as I know no such identifier exists, so 
> using the window manager to save window geometry is an imperfect solution. It 
> is obviously the only option for non-session-aware applications, but where a
> cleaner solution exists I think we should use it, even if it requires a 
> trivial modification to existing Gnome applications.
> 
> 
>  - Michael Rogers
> 
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