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gnome-session package

  1. Bug #249373
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Comment 2 for bug 249373

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pakraticus (pakraticus) wrote : Re: gnome session does not start window manager nor restores the previous session

Sebatien,
Would you be kind enough to point us to the mailing list or WIKI that discusses these upstream issues?

Per the August 8th changelog entry within the gnome-session source indicates this was fixed.
Traffic on the desktop-devel-list is somewhat sparse after the initial proposal to revamp gnome-session to dbus instead of xsmp. Traffic to gnome-list concerning the problem seems to be 2.22 oriented.
Nothing is mentioned in the Gnome 2.24 showstopper review.

A quick review of the desktop files generated for gnome-terminal indicate that gnome-terminal does not currently have AutostartCondition nor X-GNOME-Autostart-*.

Reading through the proposal thread http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-June/msg00210.html indicates that xsmp was completely dropped in favor of the new session protocol with no concern over legacy apps, including core gnome apps such as gnome-terminal
This is not "known upstream issues." This is "This will never work for legacy applications." A warning of some sort in /usr/share/doc/gnome-session directing annoyed users to the guilty parties would have been appreciated.