XFce4 session manager

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hehehe, looks like there a new version every 10 minutes or so :)

 xfce4-session-0.0.3...> 01-Jul-2003 20:10   190k  
 xfce4-session-0.0.4...> 01-Jul-2003 22:14   190k  
 xfce4-session-0.0.5...> 01-Jul-2003 22:32   190k  

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 20:21, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> As some of you might have already noticed, I'm working on a session
> manager for XFce. Today I finished the work on the basic session
> management part, and its now able to save sessions on logout and
> restore them on the next login. It *should* also work well with broken
> SM aware apps (I would consider the current SM aware xfce apps to be
> broken, and I'm working on it, but thats for xfce 4.2).
> 
> Everybody is invited to test the session manager. I'll always put the
> latest working version online here:
> 
> 	http://echobase.homeunix.net/~bmeurer/tmp/xfce4-session/
> 
> At the time of this writing its:
> 
> 	xfce4-session-0.0.3.tar.gz
> 
> Usage is simple: Install as usual (untar, configure, make, make
> install), then edit your .xsession/.xinitrc script to launch
> xfce4-session instead of startxfce4. xfce4-session will then bring up
> the previous saved session or if no session was saved, bring up a
> default xfce4 session.
> 
> For the ones interested: xfce4-session stores the sessions in
> ~/.xfce4/sessions/session-*. The file format is described in
> doc/SessionFileFormat.txt (I might switch to XML at a later time, but
> for now, its easier to store stuff in binary format).
> 
> Have a nice day...
> 
> Benedikt
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Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
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