[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 8324] New: make sure a minimal session is always active

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8324

             Bug #: 8324
           Summary: make sure a minimal session is always active
    Classification: Xfce
           Product: Xfce4-session
           Version: 4.8.2
          Platform: PC (x86_64)
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: Medium
         Component: General
        AssignedTo: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
        ReportedBy: corsac at debian.org
         QAContact: bjt23 at cornell.edu
                CC: benny at xfce.org


Hey,

I have some recent reports from Debian users, on Xfce 4.8, which end up with a
broken session where a lot of Xfce components weren't running, including xfwm4.

It's not really clear what happened (or even that the same thing happened
everytime), but in the end they managed to get a session cache with only
xfce4-session running, more or less (maybe xfwm4 crashed and the session still
got saved, not sure)

xfce4-session shouldn't make assumptions on what the user wants or does not
want to use, so it should respect what's in the session cache, but at some
point, it'd be nice if it could make sure the final session is usable.

Would it be possible to check, when the desktop has completed init, if the
mandatory components are present? Right now, the only mandatory one for me is a
window manager (wether xfwm4 or anything else), but there might be others. If
there's no window manager running, then maybe it makes sense to run xfwm4 just
in case: what are the chances that a user would like to not use a window
manager and still use xfce4-session?

What do you think?

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