Re: [tlug] X11 Session Manager Setup

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Curt Sampson writes:

 > Multiple "states of the desktop." For the background of how X session
 > management works, see:
 > 
 >     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_session_manager

Actually, I've hacked on xsm (but can't really recommend it as an
improvement over GNUMB) and have "X Session Management Library and ICE"
sitting on my desktop.  XEmacs will get XSM support one of these days
....

As Ian put it, what kind of problem are you trying to solve?

 > > I guess what you mean is having different sets of apps available, and
 > > that is normally handled with virtual desktops.
 > 
 > No; a session would be the state of everything running on all the
 > desktops. This is restartable; if I save my session, logout, reboot the
 > machine, then log in again and restore that session, all the apps will
 > be restarted in the state in which they were before. (Or with as much of
 > that state as they cared to preserve.)

OK, so you think you want real session management.  Why?  Are you
planning to switch to Windows and reboot every six hours, just to be
on the safe side?

Also, do the apps you use maintain state?  I bet vi doesn't. :-)  I
know XEmacs doesn't currently participate in the XSM protocol
(although it will save state in a highly configurable way if you ask
it to).  Firefox probably does, though.  Etc, etc.