session save/restore

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Tim Welch wrote:
> On Thu, June 8, 2006 5:28 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 09:12 -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
>>
>>> since moving to 2.14, i can not save my session, at least not so that it
>>> can be restored.
>>>
>>> logout does not even present the save option any more.
>>>
>>> if i run gnome-session-save --gui, it looks ok, but, when i restart,
>>> none of the windows are restored.
>>>
>>> what clue am i missing?
>> It works for me.  I just tested on a clean account as I do not want to
>> mess with my real user's session.  I added a terminal, ran
>> gnome-session-save --gui, and logged back in.  My terminal came up.  I
>> suppose you could check permissions on ~/.gnome2/session, and maybe try
>> ktrace'ing gnome-session-save to see if anything interesting shows up.
>>
>> Joe
>>
> There is indeed something wrong with sessions in 2.14. It does _not_ work
> for me either, on a clean account or my old account. Whether using
> gnome-session-save --gui or setting gnome to save session automatically in
> desktop/preferences/sessions, the session does not get saved and my
> gkrellm's do not start. Sometimes one and only one will start, but even
> that's not reliable (I run 3, to monitor 3 servers here). It seems that
> the session code in 2.14 will not start more than one instance of a
> program. If I use a shell script to start all 3, they all start fine, on
> the occasions where gnome bothers to run the shell script.
> 
> Another issue entirely.. the 'ask on logout' option in
> desktop/preferences/sessions does nothing.

I hope either you or Randy have opened a bug with GNOME on this.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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