X Session Manager - Client-managing Sessions

Client-managing Sessions

According to the XSMP protocol, a session manager is an arbitrary program that runs and controls the state of other applications. As a result, a client can itself be a session manager of other clients. For example, a mail client can start a text editor for the sake of writing an email, and behave as a session manager with respect of the editor. This way, if the mail client is closed and then restarted again, it can restore the state of the text editor.