[Geany-devel] altername session management implementation

[Eugene Arshinov]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 19:48:18 +0300%
Dimitar Zhekov <dimitar.zhekov at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:51:18 +0400
> Eugene Arshinov <earshinov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:48:15 +0300%
> > Dimitar Zhekov <dimitar.zhekov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > 1. On my system your version do not automatically remove
> > > > temporary SM-related session files.  Is it supposed to do so?
> > > > I saw that you specified DiscardCommand.
> > > 
> > > They are removed when a program ceases to be part of the session
> > > (i.e. when you close an instance), not on session restart or
> > > something.
> > > 
> > 
> > But even if I open Geany and immediately close it, its temporary
> > file is still there.  I just checked out that the file still exists
> > even after I logout and login again (i.e., after GNOME session
> > manager is restarted).
> 
> Well, under xfce-sm they are deleted as soon as the geany instance is
> closed (xfce has some other bugs though). With GNOME, a lot of the
> session management is implemented in it's session client library. The
> best and most compliant XSM is that of KDE4.
> 
> And easier way to test than installing KDE is to temporarily disable
> the GNOME SM and use xsm(1). It's not suitable for practical work, but
> should be enough to try the creation/deletion of the .conf files.
> 

Thanks, I'll try that.

> > > 
> > > (On that note, I don't think it's necessary for you to try
> > > guessing the absolute name of args[0], every program I've seen
> > > just stores argv[0] directly.)
> > > 
> > 
> > I checked that relative paths do not work, even if
> > SmCurrentDirectory is properly set.  Ordinary users rarely run
> > programs using relative paths, but still.
> 
> With xfce, and SmCurrentDirectory specified, they are OK. As of
> GNOME... *sigh* I don't like to be harsh, but it has the worst XSM
> support, especially for non-gnome programs, and always had. Instead of
> fixing it, they finally replaced XSMP with a D-Bus based protocol at
> the end of 2008.

Yes, I heard about it.

>
> So if you feel like writing support for it... I do
> not.
> 

No, I don't like it, but there are some GNOME users out there :)

> > > There are some other fixes, I can send a patch against 5064 if you
> > > want.
> > 
> > Yes, that would be good.  I have an idea of combining your SM
> > implementation with my sm branch (you know the branch now contains
> > plenty of things apart of SM, e.g. changes in command-line handling,
> > Geany session management, [...] If I finally do it, I'll send here
> > resulting patch(es).
> 
> Attached. To prevent an unlikely race condition, the "Build ->
> Set build commands" settings should be saved on OK response, instead
> of when exiting Geany, but I believe your sm branch includes that.
> 

Okay, thanks.