New session manager

[Olivier Fourdan]

Benny,

AFAIK, NETWM fullscreen mode works just fine and is fully supported by
xfwm4. Try gnome-terminal or even Mozilla/gtk2 for fullscreen apps.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 20:14, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Hello Xfce world,
> 
> I just committed the new session manager code to HEAD. It is not yet in a 
> production ready state, but since I'm working on it for over two months now, 
> there has to be a point to commit it, or 4.2 will be released in 2010 :-)
> 
> The new code is now 100% multihead-safe (both MultiScreen and Xinerama), most 
> of the reported bugs are fixed and everything looks better now :)
> 
> The problems are currently:
> 
>   - smproxy does no longer work with the session manager (so, do _NOT_ launch 
> smproxy, it'll cause all kinds of problems). I have to write a multihead safe 
> replacement for smproxy, but that'll take some time.
>   - Some buggy programs can still crash the sm, I'm on it
>   - the interaction sm <-> wm seems to be broken, since xfwm4 does not 
> recognize any windows at startup (Olivier, any ideas on this?)
>   - the splash window is now yet themable (Note, that from now on, the old 
> splash themes are no longer supported), I've talked to Francois about a good 
> splash theme solution, but theres nothing in sight yet, but don't worry, it'll 
> be ready for 4.2
>   - the code and the file formats are not yet frozen, I preserve the right to 
> change it if necessary.
> 
> So, after all, happy testing (expect bugs :-)
> 
> regards,
> Benedikt
> 
> PS: Olivier, I noticed that there is no way to tell the window manager to keep 
> a window on top of all others (the NETWM fullscreen state does not seem to 
> work with xfwm4), can you have a look at it. I've currently set the splash 
> window OverrideRedirect and manually raises the it every now and then. It'd be 
> nice if the window manager could do this instead.
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