Re: [PATCH] exit function

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Am Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:21:14 +0200
schrieb Timo Korvola <Timo Korvola iki fi>:

> On Tuesday 17 November 2009 18:17:01 Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> >  hmm, now there I'm reading this i realize it, too. Any better
> >  solution in mind?
> 
> Using a session manager.  Implementing a session manager inside
> Sawfish would appear difficult and futile.  It would be better for
> the session manager to be a standalone program.  The deprecated
> WM_SAVE_YOURSELF protocol could perhaps be implemented in Sawfish
> without too much difficulty, but supporting only an obsolete protocol
> also seems pointless.
> 
> >  On the other hand, when you manually close a
> >  session, normally only stuff like pager, tray, panel, desklets are
> >  running, the rest is closed by you before that. That's why I choose
> >  delete-window-safely, as it would be enough for that windows.
> 
> Do they need even that?
> 

Well, eg. the screenlets loose newly set settings then not closed
properly. But for the majority it may not make a difference. 

Something like lxsession in a basic form for sawfish would be the best
solution. If someone is willing to volounteer that for 3.0 (as extra
package)

Chris