What would anyone suggest for session management in FVWM. I have looked at the FvwmSave and FvwmSaveDesk modules, and don’t really care for them. I have also tried ROX-Session and gnome-session but was never able to get them to work well with FVWM. All I need is to automatically save the apps that are running when I quit and reload them when I log back in.
Not to plug my own article, I do have some notes on just that here:
Thanks. I’ve actually been there before; that’s where I got the ideas on which session managers to use. Unfortunately, I haven’t had as much success with them as I would like. First, I suspect that fvwm is not being terminated properly when using rox-session or gnome-session. I don’t think the InitFunctions are being called (I can’t remember exactly, it’s been a while). Second, I can’t figure out how to make the session managers just quit if fvwm dies. They just hang around and want to restart the window manager.
Session management support is something I’m going to look at for my dissertation next year (with fvwm). Rox-session is not a session manager. It’s just a glorified way of starting applications up (in parlance with KDE’s ~/.kde/AutoStart directory).
Also, because the session manager is repsonsible for the WM as well, they’re bound to restart it. You can get gnome-session not to do that, but the consequences are one of an endless loop.
If you want me to take a look at your config file, I can do.
Hmm… well, is there a command that says “log me out of gnome-session”… ya know, something like “gnome-session logout”??
I decided to play around with it and noticed two more things. When I restart fvwm with the restart command, firefox loses its titlebar and many of the fonts become bigger (the same size that they would be if I just started gnome).
Fixed fonts by changing DPI to 75.
The other thing to remember is to make sure you run the command:
gnome-settings-daemon
from ~/.xsession, or some such, so that preferences are persistent across sessions.
Ok, thanks.
The other problem I am having is that aterm doesn’t use the same colors (defined in .Xdefaults) that fvwm uses.
I searched for it and found a fix to the .Xdefaults thing. Gnome uses .Xresources, so I just made a link from .Xresources to .Xdefaults. And for some reason, the firefor titlebar problem disappeared, so it works now.
Hopefully this thread will help others.
Edit: I spoke to soon… I still want a way to logout without using the menu in the gnome-panel, as I would like to have gnome-panel not running.
This I found in the manpages (not very easy to find I tell you … ), I think the last one is what you’re after 
hth
Spectacular! Everything is working just the way I want it, as far as session management goes. Thanks, both of you.