[249] in Athena User Interface
Re: session management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Fri Jun 30 01:19:21 2000
To: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 30 Jun 2000 01:19:17 -0400
In-Reply-To: Brad Thompson's message of "Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:51:25 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hbt0jsq3u.fsf@alice-whacker.mit.edu>
Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU> writes:
> There is no "Quit" menu item in gmc. If I kill it with /bin/kill, the
> session manager restarts it. Going to the "Browse running programs" item
> in the session manager reveals that it thinks that gmc should respawn,
> even though I never asked it to. Manually changing this setting is good
> enough to make it go away until the next time I launch and kill it.
Ah, right.
So you did correctly understand exactly what to do to change the
behavior; I think you understand how it works exactly right. I'm not
sure whether its gmc or the default session that "knows" that the
default setting for the restart bit on gmc is "true". (Just as, the
default for the panel and the windowmanager is "true".)
I suspect you need to launch it with some option to tell it that it
should not be installed as restarting. Certainly --sm-disable should
do the trick, but there might also be a lighter way. If not, there
should be.
> The two problems with this approach are:
> 1) It is different than the gnome default, so will require developer
> resources to write and support.
> 2) It denies the average user a potentially useful feature.
It also means that we cannot use the standrad Gnome documentation
anymore. So if we choose this approach, we need to talk to pubs so
someone can write replacements that omit the mention of session
management.
Thomas
