Hi, all,
Some guys with GNOME 2/3/Unify, KDE 3/4 and LXDE, can you please check if the X11R4 session protocol works? Just activate your "save session on logout", run a couple of gtk+ programs (evince/charmap without gnome support, firefox, transmission, ...), then logout, login, and see if the programs are restarted.
Information about smaller WM-s with some kind of "session support" is welcome too.
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On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 09:48:36 +1100 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Dimitar,
Aside from [...] XSMP, which was never implemented properly by anyone except maybe the KDE4 guys, there's something called "legacy" X11 session protocol. It's OK, except that no "Save foo.c"? questions are allowed (this part of XSMP is implemented especially bad anyway).
Am I right in thinking that what you are saying is that the situation is a mess, but that you *may* be able to get the legacy mode running?
XSMP support is a grief. And looking at GNOME, I'm now unsure which DE-s support X11R4 (let's avoid "legacy", which in gnome means "xsmp").
As of ability, WM_SAVE_YOURSELF is much easier to support than XSMP, and the change will affect almost exclusively sm.c, anything else being 95% identical to the existing sm code. Many years ago, I extended the nedit save yourself handler a bit, in the (never released) 5.6 version.
Won't allow user choice for saving files but will restore session?
Yes.