On 2019-03-11 04:12:29 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2019 Sun, 10 Mar 11:16:03 -0500 > > J Leslie Turriff scripsit: > > On 2019-03-10 10:35:32 BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: > > > On Sunday 10 March 2019, J Leslie Turriff wrote: > > > > Is there a way to make TDE aware of running non-Trinity applications > > > > so that they can be resurrected after Logout/Login? I have at least > > > > one X11-based application (X2 - The Programmer's Editor) that I use > > > > extensively, and it would be nice if it could remember across > > > > Logout/Login events. > > > > I'm wondering if something like a DCOP wrapper might do the job? > > > > > > > > Leslie > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Load the application into your autostart dir. > > > /home/foo/.trinity/autostart > > > Also, check the program's setting to see if it has an autostart > > > feature. > > > > > > Kate > > > > Yes, that would work if I wanted it to start at every login, not just if > > it was running when I logged out... > > > > Leslie > > Once upon a time there was a little kingdom where all applications held the > X11 standards high and the grand master of session management called xsm > ruled the desktop. In that long forsaken world evil crept in in the form of > timy little gnomes that insisted the old standard was outdated and a new > standard needed to be praised. These followers of freedesktop.org brought > the gnome session manager with them, and it did no good. Then there came > the merceneries and refugies from the world of funny icons and they brought > with them the not-invented-here session management. Nowadays the world is > devided into different religions of session management, some doing good > (TDE), some falling flat on their belly and calling it progress, but non > talking to one another 'cause that's deemed to be heresy. > > In other words: most gnome applications do not have any sense of session > management compareable to tde. Most old X11 applications do work with xsm - > at least you can query them for their state and get the required arguments > to restore the state. Virtually any java application does not know what > session management is all about. Firefox et al. do some kind of session > management on their own, which in most cases does not work. Now you can > choose ... pestilence, colera, ebola or pocks :-( > > Nik So I guess you're saying that there's no way to get TDE to notice my X2, then. Leslie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
