Re: [BadWM-devel] Re: [BadWM-devel] startup stuf in configs

[Alexander K. <god...@bk...>]

Hi.

Maybe you are right, maybe we just need to get a session manager working.
Session manager is smf like KDM, XDM, GDM? if so, it suck, and i dont use it, but i will if it's usefull :)
Berney, give me your icq so we can talk about it.

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:52:39PM +0200, Bernard Lidicky wrote:
> Hi,
> I think that this isn't thing that BadWM should do. 
> - all that I have written are just some ideas and
> they don't have to be true -
> 
> It may be a good idea to leave BadWM without ability to create windows 
> at startup. Because there is something called session manager - it 
> may be able to it instead of window manager.
> 
> http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-7/node74.html
> 
> I guess that it is what we need. Since BadWM is able to use
> _NET atoms (tanks Alex) it may be possible to use any other
> standart session manager together with BadWM. 
> 
> The problem is how to identify  window - executed program. :-) 
> I'll try to use the source and look.
> 
> Berny
> 
> > Ok,
> > 
> > Now i understand why it's not THAT simple :)
> > Where is a startapp option now, it parses the vdesk and the cmd now, but it uses spawn, and spawn don't support setting the desktop.
> > The problem here is that the window self is created after parsing the configs, it's made by a event, and the event don't know about the vdesk we wanted so much.
> > What can we do? we can implement a startapp mechanism, it should remember all the parameters we had specified in the configs and then after all it shell start the apps, however, make_new_client have now 3 arguments where the last one is vdesk.
> > 
> > i have no more ideas :(
> > Berney, please help :)
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:02:04PM -0300, Alexander Kremer wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I was thinking about the startapp config option and i figured out how to implement this :)
> > > In netwm spec iv'e readed about _NET_WM_DESKTOP property for every client window and i have implemented it, it's working like:
> > > Then creating a client, we set this property to the clients win for later use, for example my pager uses this atom to get the desktop which we need to plot the clients representation on.
> > > So we just need to set this atom on the newly created window then we starting apps from the config file.
> > > 
> > > I will try to make this real today.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Alexander Kremer.
> > > 
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