Comment 10 for bug 249373

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 06:02:10PM -0000, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> Yes, the firefox is just killed. Anyway, gnome-session-properties
> complains that saving session is not implemented yet :) And I don't see
> any session file under ~/.gnome2, ~/.gnome2_private, ~/.config

the new session protocol has each app that supports it
(Which as far as I can tell are the apps in gnome-session and nothing else)
directs each application to store session information in gconf2.

Backwards compatibility still remains on the todo list.
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> gnome session does not start window manager nor restores the previous session
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249373
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> Status in The GNOME 2 Session Manager: New
> Status in “gnome-session” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-session
>
> The latest gnome-session in Ubuntu/intrepid does not restore saved session at all. It does not start window manager (I'm not using craps like compiz or metacity, I'm using openbox, but /usr/bin/gnome-wm correctly starts the openbox).
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> I have gnome-session: 2.23.4.1-0ubuntu1
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> I did gnome-session-save before quiting the session but nothing is restored. Moreover, I use save session on exit option.

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