[RP] save/restore frame-set

[Robert de Forest]

> > I'm going to try to implement this today, but I don't know of a reliable 
> > way to
> > associate window titles with content.  Some will be easy: Galeon puts "- 
> > Galeon"
> > at the end of its title.  XMMS puts "XMMS -" at the beginning.  VIM puts "- 
> > VIM"
> > at the end while editing, and "Thanks for flying Vim" when it's done.  
> > However,
> > there are no standards in this area.

> One can't use the name for this purpose, it's not reliable. When saving
> the frame configuration one stores the ID of the window associated with
> each frame along with its geometry. When restoring the configuration
> one must make a new call to `windows' with '%n %i' in the argument to
> get the window number corresponding to the saved ID. The ID is unique
> to each window and doesn't change. But it does can happen that the
> window just don't exist anymore.... 

I guess I paid too little attention to the original discussion then.  I thought
the objective was to restore window settings after restarting X - a kind of
session save and restore.  The id won't be the same between invocations, will
it?  Or maybe they will.  I'm seeing strange patterns in the ids.

Where can I find more documentation on this?

I don't use frames, so the part I was most interested in was renumbering my
windows to what they were before.  I like Galeon to be 8 and xmms to be 9. :P

Robert

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