Re: Display option in multiscreen (session management)

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

JAYARAJ P R wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is in continuation of the discussion at
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-April/msg00139.html
>
> After following the discussion, here is a brief alogorithm of what
> we plan to implement for session-management to work in a multiscreen
> environment.
>
> 1. All GNOME applications need to do the following in their save_session
> routine.
>
> a)get the DISPLAY environment variable using getenv ("DISPLAY")
> b)call gnome_client_set_environment (client, "DISPLAY", DISPLAY)
>
> NOTE: Currently, there is a bug in gnome_client_set_environment(), that it
> stores only the name of the environment variable and not its value in the
> ~/gnome2/session file. This has been logged as bug #79861 and a patch is
> attached against it.
>
> 2. If the application is invoked with the --display argument and it uses
> gtk_init(), then we need to do a setenv (DISPLAY, ":<display num>.<screen
> num>")
> before the call to gtk_init(), since gtk_init() seems to strip off
> the --display
> argument. The --display argument takes precedence over the DISPLAY
> environment
> variable.
>
> Please give your thoughts/comments on the above.
>  
Would the gdk_get_display() routine be usable for this?  This should get 
round having to check if --display was passed.

James.

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