Re: Display option in multiscreen (session management)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> 
> 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.
> 

I don't see how we can do it entirely in the application, without
forcing sessions to be specific to a particular machine.

Havoc