[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#686565: xfce4-session: Please unfreeze fix for xfce sessions saving bug

[Tomas Pospisek]

Hello Debian Release Team,

today http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686565 hit me: out 
of a sudden Xfce will start *without* a window manager which, depending on 
which application starts last will leave you without any possiblities to 
have a working desktop apart from changing to a terminal (CTRL-ALT-Fx) and 
starting the window manager from there manually:

    $ DISPLAY=:0.0 xfwm4 &

Not even a reboot fixes the problem AFAICS.

I think the recently uploaded xcfe4-session package fixes only this single
problem and as such *should* be safe:

   http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xfce4-session/xfce4-session_4.8.3-3/changelog

(comment from package maintainer wellcome)

Please save Xfce users the pain of their desktop breaking out of the blue 
- please let this package migrate to wheezy.

Thanks,
*t

PS: The severity of the bug is at "normal" only.