Re: [rox-devel] C version of ROX-Session

[Thomas L. <ta...@gm...>]

On 4/15/07, Thomas Leonard <ta...@gm...> wrote:
> On 4/15/07, Ken Hayber <ke...@ha...> wrote:
> > Thomas Leonard wrote:
> > > Random thought: can we get rid of the session manager completely?
> > > Could we instead get the other ROX components to integrate with other
> > > session managers?
> > Wouldn't we need to support the xsm protocol?
>
> We already do (in ROX-Filer at least), although the restart command it
> gives is only for the current version (i.e. not the 0launch command,
> which means you don't get automatic updates when using Zero Install).
> Need to fix that (without annoying people not using 0launch).

I've made some changes to the xsm support in the filer:

- If 0launch is in $PATH then we tell the session manager to use that
to restart us rather than using the AppRun of the current version.

- If the -S option was used to start the filer then use that in the
restart command (before, we expanded -S to the currently active
panel/pinboard at the time the session was saved). This means that
changing your configuration actually takes effect, even if you don't
save the session.

- If -S is used then ask the session manager to restart us
automatically if we crash.

> > > - OroboROX must be able to register as the new window manager with
> > > various session managers.
> > Is there a standard for this now?  If so why aren't we using it?  If not
> > then...?  Actually it doesn't seem that there is any special setting for
> > this, isn't it just another app to be started by the session manager?
>
> The problem is you can only have one running at once. So, before you
> can start OroboROX you need to kill metacity. But once you've killed
> your existing WM, doing anything else is tricky!
>
> I thought I saw beryl do this on one machine (replace metacity), but I
> might have been mistaken.

There seems to be a '--replace' argument to metacity. Need to
investigate this...


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