add session management about roxterm HOT 6 CLOSED

Some related info:

Bug 402365 – Save terminal scrollback with session
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402365

Bug 402367 – Crash (or power failure) recovery
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402367

And on the related topic of 'screen' integration:
Bug 332148 – Support for GNU screen
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332148

equivalent KDE bug
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58868

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeTerminal/ScreenIntegration

http://monia.wordpress.com/2006/08/31/integrating-gnome-terminal-and-screen/
(Includes (outdated) patches for gnome-terminal to implement this.)

Original comment by: tmetro

from roxterm.

OK, I've finally got around to making it support X session management as a client. It was even harder than I thought! And I'm not sure that the window manager (at least xfwm4) is able to identify the windows correctly to get them on the correct workspace etc, but documentation on that is very sparse.

I haven't got it to save the scrollback buffer, I think that's going too far. Restoring the contents would probably clash with the new output from rerunning the command, and there could be confusion with what appears to be the last few commands not being consistent with the shell's history buffer.

Original comment by: realh

from roxterm.

OK, I've finally got around to making it support X session management as a client. It was even harder than I thought! And I'm not sure that the window manager (at least xfwm4) is able to identify the windows correctly to get them on the correct workspace etc, but documentation on that is very sparse.

I haven't got it to save the scrollback buffer, I think that's going too far. Restoring the contents would probably clash with the new output from rerunning the command, and there could be confusion with what appears to be the last few commands not being consistent with the shell's history buffer.

Original comment by: realh

from roxterm.

That completely failed to work because I misunderstood the crappy SMlib documentation. As of r710 it uses correct property names so the sessions are restored (and pruned). There still seems to be a problem getting windows on the right workspace though.

Original comment by: realh

from roxterm.

OK, I've finally got around to making it support X session management...

Fantastic!

It was even harder than I thought!

I'm glad you stuck with it.

And I'm not sure that the window manager (at least xfwm4)
is able to identify the windows correctly...

Have you tested it with GNOME?

Can you write up a simple test case showing the steps to enable session management and what I should expect to see, and I'll give it a spin under GNOME and report back.

I haven't got it to save the scrollback buffer, I think that's going too
far.

I can see a case for that argument, especially seeing as you are investigating screen integration as well, so I wouldn't worry about it. Besides, take baby steps. What you've described so far is plenty for now.

Original comment by: tmetro

from roxterm.

I use GNOME but with xfwm4 instead of metacity. I think it was roxterm's fault, not the session manager or wm, because gnome-terminal was getting the right workspace. But it's OK now, the first change I thought of to try today seems to have fixed it :-).

Original comment by: realh

from roxterm.