[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#751725: Bug#751725: xfce4-session: Empty desktop caused by --disable-legacy-sm

[Christian Marillat]

Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> writes:

> On lun., 2014-06-16 at 15:34 +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
>> Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> writes:
>> 
>> > On lun., 2014-06-16 at 01:47 +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
>> >> Package: xfce4-session
>> >> Version: 4.10.1-6
>> >> Severity: important
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> >> This version has been built with --disable-legacy-sm and now I lost all my
>> >> windows (11) opened when I start my machine.
>> >
>> > What exactly do you mean?
>> 
>> I've 4 workspaces with 11 windows (11 urxvt terminals) in my
>> session. Each time I login to xorg these 11 windows are opened
>> automatically. Now all my workspaces are empty.
>
> Are they opened automatically because they are part of a session or
> because you manually set them to autostart?

I don't have any autostart configuration.

>> >> An empty desktop is completely unusable for me.
>> >
>> > What happens if you start your applications normally? Are they not saved
>> > correctly afterwards?
>> 
>> What do you mean by saved correctly ? Windows position and dimension ?
>
> And especially the fact they're actually started…

Then no.

[...]

>> >> It is possible to document how to restore my old session or even better and
>> >> certainly the best, xfce4-session should do that automaticaly.
>> >
>> > Well, that's supposed to be the case and the point of session
>> > management, but there might be some bugs.
>> >
>> > It's just not completely clear if you talk about the transition or if
>> > it's reproducible everytime.
>> 
>> I'm also able to reproduce this bug in a virtualbox machine.
>> 
> That's not what I asked.

This bug is reproducible and think people will not be happy to lost
there session configuration.

Christian