Serious bug in xfce4-session

[Benedikt Meurer]

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.

> -Don

Benny