[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#686565: Bug#686565: xfce4-session: Please unfreeze fix for xfce sessions saving bug (fwd)

[Tomas Pospisek]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:

> On lun., 2012-11-12 at 15:17 +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 13:25 +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
>>>> Hello Debian Release Team,
>>>
>>> This isn't really how one requests an unblock... :P
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>> Please save Xfce users the pain of their desktop breaking out of the blue -
>>>> please let this package migrate to wheezy.
>>>
>>> See http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xfce4-session.html , specifically
>>> the "testing migration" section. The package has been unblocked for a
>>> few days already but hasn't migrated yet because it was uploaded with
>>> the urgency field set to "low" by the maintainers.
>
> Yeah, the bug is present in sid/wheezy since months so it's not like few
> days more will really matter, and if the fix introduces a regression,
> I'm ok with having 10 days for people to notice it.

Thanks.

And I'm actually not really sure if 4.8.3-3 actually fixed the bug.

As with the original bug reporter xfce was working here session restore 
and everything until today when xfwm4 didn't automatically start any more.

I installed xfce4-session 4.8.3-3 and rebooted. Still, xfwm4 would not 
start. So I started it by hand.

Logged out, logged in, xfwm4 did not start automatically.

Then I noticed that in the session settings "Automatically save at logout" 
(I'm translating this, since my desktop is in German), was not set.

(I have never touched these settings before, they were migrated from
  Ubuntu Precise to Debian wheezy).

Next I added the window manager to the apps that should get started 
automatically on session start in the Session and Startup configuration 
dialog. And toggled the "Automatically save at logout" check. Now the 
window manager would start.

So in order to find out what's wrong I removed both again - the window 
manager from the "Autostart apps" and "Automatically save at logout".

I logged out and logged in again and lo and behold xfce restored *both* my 
previous session *and* it automatically started the window manager.

Both should have not happened as far as I understand it, so I get the 
impression, there's something weird with xfce here.

Don't know whether I should reopen the bug...
*t