Re: Multi-sessioning for GNOME [revisited]

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth ireland sun com>]

It's simply the ability to save and use multiple sessions,
where a session is the information required to re-start
applications as they were when the session was terminated.

One common use of multiple sessions is to have different
sessions that you can restore on different displays;
this automatic selection of a display-specific session
needs to be done in the desktop session manager (gsm).

A knowledgeable user could create multiple sessions
simply by making ~/.gnome/session a symlink to
a session file, though it's non-intuitive.

One slight bug-ette with GNOME's session-management is that
it stores both session and configuration information in the
same directory.  Other ICCCM-compliant session managers
(such as the one in CDE) use a separate sessions directory
hierarchy, which keeps per-process session files (such as
gnome-terminal-B_aaqk) in a per-session directory under the
desktop's sessions directory.

Colm.

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>On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Glynn Foster wrote:
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>> A couple of us at Sun were talking about the prospect of 
multisession
>> support for GNOME.
>
>Could you elaborate a little bit more on what multisession 
support is, and
>what help from the environment is required to implement it?
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