[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#751725: Bug#751725: xfce4-session: Empty desktop caused by --disable-legacy-sm

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On lun., 2014-06-16 at 19:15 +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> writes:
> > Are they opened automatically because they are part of a session or
> > because you manually set them to autostart?
> 
> I don't have any autostart configuration.
Ok.
> 
> >> >> An empty desktop is completely unusable for me.
> >> >
> >> > What happens if you start your applications normally? Are they not saved
> >> > correctly afterwards?
> >> 
> >> What do you mean by saved correctly ? Windows position and dimension ?
> >
> > And especially the fact they're actually started…
> 
> Then no.

Ok.
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> >> It is possible to document how to restore my old session or even better and
> >> >> certainly the best, xfce4-session should do that automaticaly.
> >> >
> >> > Well, that's supposed to be the case and the point of session
> >> > management, but there might be some bugs.
> >> >
> >> > It's just not completely clear if you talk about the transition or if
> >> > it's reproducible everytime.
> >> 
> >> I'm also able to reproduce this bug in a virtualbox machine.
> >> 
> > That's not what I asked.
> 
> This bug is reproducible and think people will not be happy to lost
> there session configuration.

I understand *you* are not happy, yes. The change was requested in
#745676. As stated in my last message there, if it's indeed a regression
I'm not against reverting that, but “legacy” is X11R5 session
management, which is really deprecated, afaiui.

So if you still have applications using X11R5 and not X11R6 session
management protocol, it might be wise reporting bugs against them.

Now /maybe/ the X11R6 session management support has bugs which were
hidden by the legacy SM support, which then need to be fixed in
xfce4-session.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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