On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 12:52:22AM +0200, Didier Spaier wrote:
Hi,
Hello, I like very much FVWM, especially the ability it gives the user to easily manage individually a big number of windows. But I would like that the users of the Slint Linux distribution that I maintain be able to save and restore their sessions. Seeing in the man page: SESSION MANAGEMENT Fvwm supports session management according to the X Session Management Protocol. It saves and restores window position, size, stacking order, desk, stickiness, shadiness, maximizedness, iconifiedness for all windows. Furthermore, some global state is saved. and the associated Session Management Commands, I understand that in the most recent version at least, (2.6.7) these features are provided only in association with an external session manager. Is this correct or do I miss something? This is an issue for Slint that ships FVWM standalone (with lxpanel) and also inside a LXDE desktop, because: 1) lxsession, component of LXDE is not able to manage sessions despite its name, and the less "light" session managers that I am aware of are tightly associated with a desktop that we don't ship. 2) I wish that users have the choice to use FVWM in a full desktop as well as standalone. So my dream would be that FVWM act as its own session manager, as does WindowMaker. As a reminder, even when used standalone it the latter can manage its own sessions (example of saved session attached). Or maybe I miss something and that's already possible also with FVWM?
have you see this ? http://linuxgazette.net/100/adam.html But not sure how helpful that would be since IIRC slint is taylored for accessibility
Also, as a fallback are you aware of a an external window manager able to cooperate with FVWM and having very few dependencies?
This I do not know
Best regards, Didier
<snip> John
