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gnome-session package

Options in system > preferences > sessions, various little problems

Bug #6687 reported by James Dupin
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Bug Description

In sessions options:

Help file describes a "Prompt on logout". I assume it corresponds to "Ask on logout".

Eventhough "Ask on logout" is checked, nothing happens when I log out (apart from log out of course). No questions asked. The help file describes a "Save current setup" in the logout confirmation dialog.

"Automatically save..." works fine.

Sessions. have understood what the help file says (I hope). Now to put that in pratice I have problems. Adding sessions does nothing (I can add as many names I want in the box but that's all it does). Nothing will show up (besides gdm, failsafe...) next time I am at the login screen (when I click on session to choose the one I created)
I believe that has something to do with not automatically saving the current setup and choosing to save or not the current setup by clicking on the missing "Ask on logout".

Solutions. Either get rid of those options ("ask on logout" and the "multiple sessions" box) in sessions options and make corresponding adjustment in the help file or enable them again.

In the "startup programs" tab, clicking on "Add" gives definitely a repulsing thing to a "normal user". Browsing brings you in the home folder where no command at all lies. Browsing will get the normal user lost in his computer.

Suggestions, an icon drag and drop capability from the applications menu (for example) would be a must in my mind for the normal user.

VAIO VGN-FS215E
CPU intel celeron M370 1.50 GHz
Graphics Intel 915GM with up to 128 MB
RAM 2x256 MB
WLAN 802.11 b/g
SCREEN 15.4 WXGA X-black LCD
Optical Double layer DVD+-RW
French keyboard

Normal install (daily release 01-09-06 updated)

James Dupin (james.dupin)
Changed in gnome-session:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
Changed in gnome-session:
status: Rejected → Unconfirmed
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Ariel Vardi (ariel-vardi) wrote :

I confirm the 'ask on logout' inconsistency with the actual logout window that doesn't ask for anything.

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Manu Cornet (lmanul) wrote :

We definitely need to remove the "Ask on logout" preference item... Marking as confirmed.

Changed in gnome-session:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Michael F. Rimbert (mrimbert) wrote :

Please don't remove the preference item. The desired solution would retain the preference item, and fix the behavior so that the user is prompted on logout.

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John Florian (j100) wrote :

I have a brand new 6.06 dapper (04 May 2006) install, but with a /home restored from the prior Fedora Core 3. Upon logging into GNOME a dialog states "Some panel items are no longer available ... these items will now be removed ... You will not see this message again." Great, except I see the message with every repeated login, despite logging out normally.

Session options:
  Ask on logout => checked on

Session startup programs:
  update-notifier
  gnome-power-manager
  gnome-volume-manager --sm-disable

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

John, your issue has nothing to do with this bug, looks like a message about applets from the panel rather, do you know what applets the message is about? Please open an another bug if you want about that issue, this one is not the right place

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John Florian (j100) wrote :

Sebastien, aren't panel applets part of the session that is being saved with respect to the "Ask on logout" option? I'm quite certain in the older versions of GNOME, panel configuration was not preserved unless this option was checked. I thought this bug sounded quite related as if the bogus panel applets were removed for the current session, but then not made permanent for the next session. Maybe I just misunderstood the original post.

Regardless, I have resubmitted the bug as #46856.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

John, the session is stored to ~/.gnome2/session and lists only programs, not specific configuration. The panel configuration is a part of the panel profile

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in gnome-session:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in gnome-session:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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