wishlist from a blackbox and rox user...

[Matthew Weier OPhinney]

-- Moritz Heiber <MisterMoe at hackerboard.de> wrote
(on Tuesday, 29 April 2003, 09:49 PM +0200):
> > One item I forgot to mention -- having the application start on a
> > specific workspace. For instance, having a large terminal open on
> > workspace 4 on startup.
> > 
> > I realize that these items have workarounds -- that's why I labelled the
> > email as a wishlist; they're things I'd like in an ideal world, but may
> > or may not fit in the overall scope of the WM.
> 
> This is definately a task for a session manager which is still missing
> for XFce4 (but on the TODO list). Nevertheless all XFce4 components
> support session management (you might have noticed the error messages
> at the console telling you that a session manager hasn't been found)
> so you may use the session manager of your choice (like gnome-session
> or xsm) in connection with XFce4.

Excellent -- thanks for the info. In my linux usage, I've never used a
real session manager -- I've always been running on older hardware, so I
haven't been using full desktop environments where they're typically
found. I'll look into xsm and/or gnome-session to see if they'll do what
I desire.

> > I realize that these items have workarounds -- that's why I labelled the
> > email as a wishlist; they're things I'd like in an ideal world, but may
> > or may not fit in the overall scope of the WM.
> 
> Well .. there are always workarounds ;-)

Indeed! It's what makes the X environment, and *nix in general, so fun
to explore!

-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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http://matthew.weierophinney.net