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

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On mer., 2014-06-18 at 17:21 +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 05:10:18PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 07:45:38AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> > > Agustin Martin <agmartin at debian.org> writes:
> > > 
> > > >> >> This version has been built with --disable-legacy-sm and now I lost all my
> > > >> >> windows (11) opened when I start my machine.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > What exactly do you mean?
> > > >> 
> > > >> I've 4 workspaces with 11 windows (11 urxvt terminals) in my
> > > >> session. Each time I login to xorg these 11 windows are opened
> > > >> automatically. Now all my workspaces are empty.
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Not sure if I missed this info in the bug report, but just to discard that
> > > > sessions were saved as a consequence of #745676 and not as an explicit
> > > > choice, is session saving explicitly enabled in your box?
> > > 
> > > No, never. I've configured my worspaces and then saved my session. I did
> > > that 4 or 5 years ago and midifiedd this session 3 or 4 time. 
> > 
> > I wonder whether you might have been recovering your sessions because of
> > #745676, not after an explicit selection under settings/system. If you once
> > saved your session, does enabling "show session selector on init" make the
> > old session appear in the selection box (probably as default) at sesion init
> > or was it completely lost?
> > 
> > On the other hand, I have tried with enabling either "Automatically save
> > session on logout" or "Ask on exit" (both under settings/sessions), and
> > I recover my old session after logging out and in. Session saving seems to
> > work as expected here if enabled. 
> 
> > Even better than with #745676, where some things in autostart were started
> > twice.
> 
> Minor correction. This last thing happened when session saving was disabled.
> I was not enabling session saving by that time.
> 
Note that, as far as I can tell, it's not even an issue of session
*saving*. Looking at the detected processes in xfce4-session-settings
(Session tab), like Christian, I can only see Xfce apps, and few others
(calibre, for example).

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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