warbob.rice@rand-relay@sri-unix.UUCP (08/24/83)
From: Bob.Warfield <warbob.rice@rand-relay> The problem of rembering the characteristics of a login session is important not only for networking, but for any serious implementation of a window manager for unix, since multiple shells in separate windows represent a similar problem. Even more difficult is the construction of a window based system that will restore the desktop and associated shell windows to their last state before logout. At the very least this means the virtual terminals should all be in the same state, the histories should be unchanged, and the working directories should be unchanged. Eventually this all reaches the point of absurdity of course. (Should programs that are running at logout be frozen in their current state if they are foreground jobs? Talk about pausing emacs!). Bob Warfield warbob@rice