On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:13:26AM +0000, David Given wrote: > If I'm understanding it correctly, the answer is yes, but not reliably.
You have it correctly. > I gather applications tend to be very sloppy with their winprops; so > you'll find things like applications that give all their windows the > same class and instance, and the like. > And then there's the problem of > distinguishing between multiple instances of the same app And the problem of knowing when the same instance has created multiple similar windows (e.g. browsers). Also sometimes WM_COMMAND, even if set, may be of no use, as the program may have been started by a wrapper shell script that decompresses parameter files, sets up environment and so on. > I have vague memories of some sort of X session management standard. > Does anyone know anything about this? Might it be useful? There's a session management standard, and there's actually a module and a patch for ion 20020207 for it. The number of "apps that matter" with any kind of support for it: zero. -- Tuomo
