session management tweaking

[edscott wilson garcia]

Thanks Benny!

I'll try the libSM on top of libICE way first, now that I know what to
look for :-)

regards,

Edscott


El lun, 11-10-2004 a las 07:51, Benedikt Meurer escribió:
> edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > Hey Benny,
> 
> Hey Edscott,
> 
> >   I'm trying to get xffm to restore itself to the directory in which it
> > was located for each session. In xfce3 this was done with the legacy
> > method of setting the Xatom "WM_COMMAND". Although the xfce4-session
> > code includes legacy stuff, it seems to prefer the argument list which
> > was sent to gtk_init(), which not necessarily is the same when the
> > session comes to an end.
> 
> The legacy code basicly implements the X11R5 session management 
> (WM_SAVE_YOURSELF protocol) with a fallback on plain WM_COMMAND 
> grabbing. I use XGetCommand which IIRC does nothing more than querying 
> the WM_COMMAND property value.
> 
> > Is there an easy way to change argument list the xfce4-session manager
> > will use to restart a gtk2 application? Or maybe make it use the legacy
> > WM_COMMAND Xatom?
> 
> The best way to get good session management support would be to use the 
> X11R6 protocol (libSM on top of libICE). libxfcegui4 contains very 
> limited support for this.
> 
> Another way (the X11R5 way) would be to listen for WM_SAVE_YOURSELF on 
> the client leader window (the window where the WM_CLIENT_LEADER property 
> of your toplevel windows points to) and set WM_COMMAND on the leader 
> window after you received a save yourself notify. I'm not sure if Gtk+ 
> doesn't already do this. Maybe there's even a way to trick Gtk+ to set 
> different arguments for the WM_COMMAND property.
> 
> > regards,
> > Edscott
> 
> regards,
> Benedikt
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