KDE session manager (ksmserver)
Matthias Ettrich <kde.org">ettrich@kde.org> Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@kde.org">l.lunak@kde.org>
ksmserver is KDE's session management server. It talks the standard X11R6 session management protocol (XSMP). Thus, in theory, it should be compatible with all session management compliant X11R6 applications. Unfortunately, there aren't that many of them. To be precise, I have never seen a single commercial application that supports it and even within the official X11R6 distribution, 'xclock' is the only exception. Nevertheless we've chosen to support XSMP despite the complexity of the protocol in order to provide KDE users more interoperability with applications that were not explicitly written with KDE in mind. XSMP, as an official X standard, promised to be more likely to be supported by third parties than even a superior KDE-specific protocol. Let's see whether we were right and more applications will actually talk XSMP. At least all KDE applications do now.

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