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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: "Save session for future logins" is misleading
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-04-27 21:43:04
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On Saturday 27 April 2002 02:20 am, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> that's the idea.  actually, this option to restore the session or not
> belongs to kdm (and on the startkde command line). adding a checkbox to
> it would be trivial; everything necessary has been already discussed.
> the problem is, that support for multiple sessions is going to be added
> soon. the problem here is, that kdm should work with any session manager
> (be it ksmserver, xsm, whatever.), so how do you communicate it the
> available choices in a portable way?

By setting a standard :-) E.g. you could call a program that is supposed to 
tell you (kdm) the available sessions and then set an ENV.VAR. that informs 
the session manager which session should be restarted.

Cheers,
Waldo
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bastian@kde.org  |   SuSE Labs KDE Developer  |  bastian@suse.com


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