Re: metacity/gnome-session question

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 15:02, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> what is the mechanism by which one communicates into which metacity
> virtual workspace gnome-session should place an application?

It's pretty complicated. You have to read the session management spec to
really understand the details.

Briefly, when the session is saved all apps including metacity are asked
to save their state. As part of its state, metacity saves where all the
windows live to a file in ~/.metacity. When the session is reloaded, the
session manager tells metacity which of those files to use. The session
manager is also supposed to clean up the unused files but this seems to
be unreliable so you probably have a bunch of them.

Havoc