SMPROXY(1)

💅 SMPROXY 💅

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about smproxy — the Session Manager Proxy, from the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood SMPROXY(1) page. she's giving middleman energy and honestly? iconic. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

smproxy [-clientId id] [-restore saveFile] [-version]

that's it. three little flags. she's low maintenance, she's unbothered. 🦋

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -clientId id — tells her the session ID that smproxy was using back in the previous session. like, hi, remember me? this is who I was. 🫶
• -restore saveFile — points at the file that smproxy used to save its state in the previous session. your little time capsule fr fr. 💖
• -version — prints the program version and then dips. that's the whole job. periodt. ✨

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the tea: smproxy lets X applications that do not support X11R6 session management still participate in an X11R6 session. like she's the extrovert friend who introduces her shy bestie to the whole party. no cap. 💅

for smproxy to actually act as a proxy for an X application, one of the following must be true:

• the application maps a top level window containing the WM_CLIENT_LEADER property. this property provides a pointer to the client leader window, which contains the WM_CLASS, WM_NAME, WM_COMMAND, and WM_CLIENT_MACHINE properties. 🧚

or ... 👀

• the application maps a top level window which does not contain the WM_CLIENT_LEADER property. however, this top level window contains the WM_CLASS, WM_NAME, WM_COMMAND, and WM_CLIENT_MACHINE properties. okay so she's flexible, she's adaptable, she's whatever the vibe requires. 🌈

an application that supports the WM_SAVE_YOURSELF protocol will receive a WM_SAVE_YOURSELF client message each time the session manager issues a checkpoint or shutdown. this is the app's moment to save state — main character energy, honestly. 💖

and if an application does not support the WM_SAVE_YOURSELF protocol? then the proxy will still provide enough information to the session manager to restart the application (using WM_COMMAND), but no state will be restored. so like... she'll bring your friend to the party but she cannot bring their personality. 😭 the vibes are gone. the memories are gone. only the shell remains. 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• xsm(1)

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Ralph Mor, X Consortium — king behaviour, we stan. 👑

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this was X Version 11, smproxy 1.0.7, dropping on your SMPROXY(1) page. go forth and proxy responsibly. mwah. 💅✨🎀