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



Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> writes:

> 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.

I did a test with applications from the x11-apps package and nothing is
saved. Iceweasel, gnome-terminal, aterm are not saved.

> 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.

Then I think this is a bug. Nothing is saved in ~/.cache.session execpt
xfree desktop applications (xfce4-panel, xfwm4, xfdesktop4, thunar).

Christian




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