[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#547153: /usr/bin/xfce4-session: "Restart Style" setting has no effect and is undocumented

[Jö Fahlke]

Package: xfce4-session
Version: 4.6.1-1
Severity: normal

I can adjust the "Restart Style" of particular applications in the "Session"
tab of the "Session and Startup" settings dialog.  However, it is undocumented
what each of the four options "If Running", "Always", "Immediately" and
"Never" actually mean (well, I can guess the meaning of the last option, but
the difference between the first three is beyond me).

To find the meaning of the different options, I adjusted the "Restart Style"
for xfce4-panel and killed it (using "killall xfce4-panel").  The result was
always the same, no matter which option I used for the setting: the panel
vanished and did not restart automatically.

Thanks,
Jö.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xfce4-session depends on:
ii  fortune-mod            1:1.99.1-3.1      provides fortune cookies on demand
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.26.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.9-25            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.8-2           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.82-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-4           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-5           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.4-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.5-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.16.6-1          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                2:1.0.5-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.5-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                 2:1.1.1-1         X11 Session Management library
ii  libwnck22              2.26.1-1          Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.2-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxfce4util4          4.6.1-1           Utility functions library for Xfce
ii  libxfcegui4-4          4.6.1-1           Basic GUI C functions for Xfce4
ii  libxfconf-0-2          4.6.1-1           Client library for Xfce4 configure
ii  xfce4-settings         4.6.1-2           graphical application for managing
ii  xfconf                 4.6.1-1           utilities for managing settings in
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages xfce4-session recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal                           0.5.13-3   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  x11-xserver-utils             7.4+2      X server utilities
ii  xfce4-panel                   4.6.1-3    The Xfce4 desktop environment pane
ii  xfce4-utils                   4.6.1-1    Various tools for Xfce
ii  xfdesktop4                    4.6.1-1    xfce desktop background, icons and
ii  xfwm4                         4.6.1-1    window manager of the Xfce project

Versions of packages xfce4-session suggests:
ii  sudo                          1.7.2p1-1  Provide limited super user privile

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