Serious bug in xfce4-session

[Don Christensen]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Don Christensen wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have noticed recently a serious (at least to me) bug in xfce4-session
>> where, when logging out of Xfce on the console, the apps running on my
>> VNC X server (:2.0) on the same box get killed.  I know this happens
>> with the xfce4-session from CVS HEAD from a week or two ago, I haven't
>> verified if it is occurring in the lastest (as of today) CVS sources.
>>
>> I'm running RHEL 3 (update 2).  I have a tightvnc server running using
>> display :2.0, and it continues to run after logging out of Xfce.  Just
>> the apps that were running there are gone.  I do use dual-head, if that
>> has any bearing.  I haven't seen this problem with other WM/DEs.
> 
> 
> I guess you run the apps on :2 in your normal desktop session. Try to 
> unset the SESSION_MANAGER environment variable before starting the apps 
> on :2.

Ah, I didn't realize that got set.  Is that something that gets exported
by the session manager?  I'll try unsetting it and see how it goes.

Thanks,
-Don

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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc at cisco.com         Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA
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