[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#547153: Bug#547153: /usr/bin/xfce4-session: "Restart Style" setting has no effect and is undocumented

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

Jö Fahlke a écrit :
> Am Thu, 17. Sep 2009, 14:22:18 +0200 schrieb Yves-Alexis Perez:
>> Not all applications manage correctly XSMP so maybe x-p doesn't support
>> that.
> 
> OK, I tried with gnome-panel instead of xfce4-panel and it works indeed (with
> "Restart Stype" set to "Immediately").
> 
> If you don't mind I'd like to reassign this bug to xfce4-panel.

Not sure about that. Well, go ahead but I'm not sure it's not intended.
I'll have to check with upstream.
> 
>>       Btw it's intended to be use at session stop and start, not really
>> *during* the session, afaik.
> 
> The intended use was to automatically restart stuff like xfce4-power-manager
> which segfaults occasionally.  xfce4-panel was just my guinea pig.  I just
> switched from gnome and this was the way I dealt with this kind of annoyances
> there.

Yeah, understood. Though if xfpm segfaults, restart is ok but it'd
better fixing the crash, don't you think? It never crashes here, so if
you have a somewhat reliable crash test, and can get a backtrace, it
might be helpful.

Cheers;
-- 
Yves-Alexis