Startup Applications (gnome-session-properties) does not efficiently remember running applications
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-session (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-session
Startup Applications Bug
Steps to reproduce
1. Open every application
2. Open every preference utility
3. Open every administration utility
4. Open Startup Applications (gnome-
5. In the Options tab check "automatically remember running applications" and click "automatically remember running applications"
6. shutdown/
Result: Not all applications were remembered
Expected result: all applications should be remembered. The perfect solution would be to display the newly added applications, or show you your current session and allow the user to check each box you want to start up with the session.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 5 21:13:43 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-session-bin 2.28.0-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: gnome-session
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-
(gnome-
(nautilus:1953): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
(polkit-
(nautilus:2211): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
Thanks, but that's not a gnome-session issue. gnome-session can only restore applications that connect to the session manager, save it's own state file and tell the session manager how to restore it. If some applications don't work, then that's an application bug, and you should open a bug report for that application