Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:44:08 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Tim Welch <twelch@thepentagon.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: session save/restore Message-ID: <4489B368.9000702@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <59825.65.7.255.129.1149816230.squirrel@mail.thepentagon.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEibNob2iPiv4Uz4cRAqxuAJ0XoXICZ80cxEd8J+lFoHj+piD9lQCgreUO FEaAXxUAXwwTWCnVmmLEi50= =gSD9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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