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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Unusual problem.
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2000-10-02 10:35:37
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Sam, 30 Sep 2000 wrote Navindra Umanee:
> Matthias Ettrich <ettrich@trolltech.com> wrote:
> > Wow, that's what I call session management ;) The question is, do we
> > something wrong in ksmserver or is it gnome that's broken? I'll look
> > into the issue early next week.
> > 
> > If anybody wants to debug a gnome application, especially where exactly
> > it hanges when being restored by the KDE session management (i.e. in what
> > state), please go ahead. Anybody?
> 
> Can we go back to the old session management + the one or two good
> features (checkbox and no hanging) of this one in KDE 2.1?  :-) The
> old session management knew how to restore/restart *all* my windows
> (even apps that didn't support SM) and made X come up exactly the way
> I wanted it.

The new system is great if you don't use any session management at all, but
simply log out: applications can cancel the shutdown process after interacting
with the user.


Btw:  current KDE2 restores a fair bit of legacy applications, for example
xterm. For emacs and XEmacs: it's free software, sombody simply has to add SM
support into it ( a matter of a few hours).

Matthias


> 
> Thanks,
> Navin.
>  
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