RE: Display option in multiscreen (session management)

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 11:34, JAYARAJ P R wrote:
>
> > gnome-session would massage this data a bit before saving.  It would
> > need to know how to parse all $DISPLAY values correctly.  We could
> > then record whether an application was running on some remote machine
> > (to address [1], at least eventually) and also what screen is used for
> > display.  For instance, if gnome-session knows about "host:0.0" and
> > the application sends ":0.1" and host "host", we would record that the
> > client was running on screen 1.

from reading the smlib docs, i got the impression that the session
manager shouldn't be doing anything to the data.

the client needs to be doing _all_ of this - if it was started remotely
it needs to tell the SM how to restart it remotely.  if it used a
different screen, it needs to tell the SM how to restart it on a
different screen.

if gnome-session starts munging environment variables and command lines,
then the solution needs to be re-thought out, because we will break
other apps and won't work with other session managers.

jacob
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