On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:49:40PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:08:13AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > | On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:01:14PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | > (and a "session manager" that will keep the X session alive yet still > | > allow me to restart the window manager at will). > | > | I thought a session manager maintained your session across logins? > > I guess that is a better description of a session manager. I just > need something to keep ~/.xsession from terminating (thus ending the X > session). Ah...my .xsession just ends with 'exec sawfish'. Killing sawfish will of course bring down X, but restarting it works fine. > | I can certainly restart sawfish here and not have my X session > | collapse, > > How do you start your X sessions? I typically use gdm with the > "Debian" session type. That uses ~/.xsession just like 'startx' > would. The .xsession script runs any programs I want run at startup > (including sawfish, and finally gnome-session). When that script ends > the X session is over (X terminates and I am no longer logged in). > Currently gnome-session is what blocks .xsession from exiting, until I > choose "logout" from the gnome panel. In old-school days the window > manager was often used in this capacity. The problem with using that > now is I want to be able to restart the wm at will without affecting > the "session". As above. Also, starting a new WM from the Debian menu system seems to work, if that's good enough. > | though the windows do seem to move around a fair bit. > > When I restart sawfish, the windows go back where they were before I > killed it. Hmmm...Perhaps this is related to how I start sawfish? I'm not sure, but I restart sawfish so infrequently that I haven't really bothered looking into it. -rob
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