Re: NET WM Spec implementation and changes

[Matthias Ettrich <ettrich trolltech com>]

> Hmm. My impression was that this portion of the ICCCM was
> superceded by the X Session Management Protocol (first used
> by CDE, I guess), which moved the responsiblity for session
> management from the window manager to a (possible seperate)
> session manager. The session manager notifies those clients
> which connect to it when they should save their state, and
> it is then the client's responsibility to save whatever
> information they feel is appropriate. The window manager
> therefore would no longer have a responsibility to record
> any of the layout information (unless it wished to remain
> backwards compatible with the older ICCCM session management.)
> 
> Or have I been misinformed?

You have been misinformed. Only the windowmanager knows about all properties
of the decoration frame (naturally), thus only the window manager can restore
windows.

Please read the XSMP documentation for details.


Matthias