getting session management into gnome-core105

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight mindspring com>]

Wow, thanks for the FYI.  I wonder why the session-management improvements haven't
made it into Gnome-core?

On Wed, 12 May 1999 00:06:35 Steve Luzynski wrote:
> Nope, definately a RH6.0 thing. I just formatted the laptop tonight since
> Best Buy had 6.0 in stock ($74, yikes!). RH has added some pretty cool stuff
> to their GNOME install that the stock (even from CVS) load doesn't have.
> 
> When you log out, you get a dialog with a check box asking if you want to
> save the current config. That is followed by radio buttons with Logout,
> Restart, and Shutdown choices.
> 
> There's also a cool splash screen as it starts up. The one non-positive thing
> I noticed is that E starts up with no background screen, so you get the
> "Starting Enlightenment..." thing on the checked gray background you get
> if you don't have a WM. Kinda ugly.
> 
> (It also won't compile SSH due to some oddity with wtmpx.h that no one
> seems to have chased down yet, but that's another story).
> 
> -Steve
> 
> On Tue, 11 May 1999 21:32:35 Jesse D . Sightler wrote:
> > Are you sure you weren't using KDE when you got this?  :)  KDE's session
> > manager does this, and is generally just slicker than the one in Gnome.
> > 
> > On Tue, 11 May 1999 21:18:42 Federico David Sacerdoti wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is there a special switch I need to compile gnome-core 1.0.5 with to get
> > > the RHAD rpms-style session management?
> > > 
> > > The gnome-core I compiled made my system stop giving me the dimmed screen
> > > and prompt on logout which I really liked. How can I get it back?
> 

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