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FS#6487 - xfce-session 4.4 no longer auto-starts applications on login

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by ... (spider007) - Sunday, 25 February 2007, 19:50 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 19 April 2007, 13:05 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Since XFCE 4.4 is installed the xfce-session application no longer saves all window-states as it did before. Thunar, bmp, Terminal would previously appear on logging in, however it no longer does that. Terminal seemed to start just fine on one machine. Autosaving is enabled and prompting is not

ref: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=29154
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Thursday, 19 April 2007, 13:05 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jens Adam (byte) - Sunday, 25 February 2007, 23:30 GMT
I could confirm this.
But I haven't started with a fresh ~/.config when moving from 4.2 to -svn and later to 4.4.
I will try to backup any old Xfce configs and start from scratch, just to be sure. I'll post the results later.
Comment by ... (spider007) - Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 20:36 GMT
This problem occurs on a fresh useraccount as well; list of installed packages:
$ pacman -Q|grep xfce
gtk-xfce-engine 2.4.0-1
libxfce4mcs 4.4.0-1
libxfce4util 4.4.0-2
libxfcegui4 4.4.0-1
xfce-mcs-manager 4.4.0-1
xfce-mcs-plugins 4.4.0-1
xfce-utils 4.4.0-1
xfce4-appfinder 4.4.0-1
xfce4-artwork 0.1-2
xfce4-clipman-plugin 0.8.0-1
xfce4-cpugraph-plugin 0.3.0-2
xfce4-diskperf-plugin 2.1.0-1
xfce4-fsguard-plugin 0.3.0-2
xfce4-icon-theme 4.4.0-1
xfce4-mixer 4.4.0-1
xfce4-netload-plugin 0.4.0-1
xfce4-panel 4.4.0-1
xfce4-session 4.4.0-1
xfce4-systemload-plugin 0.4.2-1

Logged in, started Terminal with 2 tabs and Thunar; logged out and logged back in; only Thunar came back
Comment by ... (spider007) - Monday, 05 March 2007, 20:23 GMT
What can I do to speed up the fixing of this bug?
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Monday, 05 March 2007, 21:22 GMT
There is no fix in this problem. It all depends how applications support the freedesktop specifications. Some of them work, but the majority seems to blow it. I have no other Linux system running to confirm it. A verbose X session doesn't throw any errors on that issue either.
Comment by ... (spider007) - Tuesday, 06 March 2007, 08:18 GMT
Isn't it strange that Thunar works, but Terminal doesn't? They are both XFCE4 applications and I would expect them to work. I know Firefox and Thunderbird won't work; but since 4.4 other applications have the same problem? On another machine Thunar doesn't even start even though it has the same settings as a machine that does work?
Comment by Jens Hornung (yentz) - Friday, 13 April 2007, 19:12 GMT
In ArchLinux xfce4-session is compiled with the configure option "--disable-legacy-sm". I removed this option and now the session-management works with Terminal as well. I'm not sure, if there is a reason that "legacy-sm"is disabled.

Firefox still doesn't work but I think that's a problem of Firefox and not of the xfce session management.
Comment by Jens Hornung (yentz) - Friday, 13 April 2007, 20:25 GMT
In ArchLinux xfce4-session is compiled with the configure option "--disable-legacy-sm". I removed this option and now the session-management works with Terminal as well. I'm not sure, if there is a reason that "legacy-sm"is disabled.

Firefox still doesn't work but I think that's a problem of Firefox and not of the xfce session management.

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