On Monday 11 March 2019 05:12:29 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 was outdated and a new standard needed to be praised.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, > cholera, ebola or pocks :-( > > Nik Nicely put, Nik. And too close to the truth. Way too close. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>