[openbox] just a small note to openbox and xsm

Dana Jansens danakj at orodu.net
Tue Mar 10 16:46:46 EDT 2009


2009/3/9 Dennis Heuer <dh at triple-media.com>:
> hello
>
> i am one of those who refuse to entangle in modern integrated desktop
> philosopies. because there's no independent session manager out there
> except of the good old xsm, my desktop still speaks the X Session
> Management Protocol. openbox seems to not speak this language. at least
> the logout entry in the menue doesn't work. please think about
> supporting xsm.

which menu ?  openbox's menu ?  it would simply exit openbox.  it is
however capable of working with the SM protocol, and functions as a
managed client, and saves open window positions, desktops, etc.

> i don't understand the case well and would like some explanation to it.
> is there already a new freedesktop.org standard or do the desktops all
> different today?

it's all done thru the XSM protocol, which has been around a long time.



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