session manager

[Mark Houlder]

jack

tried it, didn't work :/

i'm stumped... maybe i should just rebuild some stuff.... (already tried 
re compiling session manager, to no avail)



Jack Kern wrote:

>
>
> Why not just try to use my ~/.xfce4/xinitrc (  *** My 
> ~/.xfce4/xinitrc: below) and start things as I described?  I know how 
> to read these scripts (startxfce4, xinitrc, etc.) ; so, I may be 
> taking a lot for granted if you are not familiar with shell scripts.
> Is your ~/.xfce4/xinitrc  ececutable?
>
> jkern at boat:~$ ls -l .xfce4/xinitrc
> -rwxr--r--    1 jkern    jkern         640 2004-02-29 20:39 
> .xfce4/xinitrc
>
> Does the following command output look like this?  (N.B.  lines may be 
> wrapped.)
>
> jkern at boat:~$ ps -ef | grep "\-client"
> jkern      618     1  0 08:35 tty1     00:00:00 /usr/bin/xftaskbar4 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80002000107741875300000019960002
> jkern      620     1  0 08:35 tty1     00:00:00 xfdesktop 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80002000107741074500000010610003
> jkern      621     1  0 08:35 tty1     00:00:00 xfwm4 --daemon 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80002000107741074500000010610001
> jkern      623     1  0 08:35 tty1     00:00:27 xfce4-panel 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80002000107741074500000010610005
> jkern      625     1  0 08:35 tty1     00:00:02 smproxy -clientId 
> 11c0a80002000107741074500000010610000 -restore /home/jkern/.prxWWB9M5
>
>
>
> Mark Houlder wrote:
>
>> I start it using qingy (login manager), or directly from console with 
>> 'startxfce4'
>>
>> although if i directly run
>>
>>    xinit .xfce4/xinitrc
>>
>> (xinitrc amended with 'exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session' at the end)
>>
>> it makes no difference (i use xinitrc copied from /etc/xfce4/xinitrc, 
>> which differs from yours i think)
>>
>>
>>
>> there does seem to be the relevant info in the session file, which is 
>> updated every time i login out, but it's never recreated in xfce
>>
>>
>>
>> Jack Kern wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Houlder wrote:
>>>
>>>> i know this isn't stable yet, but as many people seem to be using 
>>>> it thought i'd ask; i downloaded and installed it yesterday and had 
>>>> it working fine for a few hours, but now it's stopped working. 
>>>> whenever starting xfce, nothing to do with the session is retained 
>>>> - no previous apps opened, no terminals opened, or anything. the 
>>>> only thing that does happen is when i open a terminal, it sometimes 
>>>> opens in the previous location (but without the right geom 
>>>> settings). i've reinstalled the session manager, but that didn't 
>>>> help. the close-down dialog still appears with the 'save session' 
>>>> box ticked (i set it to do that automatically from the setup 
>>>> dialog), and when loading xfce the splash box appears, but apart 
>>>> from that nothing happens.
>>>>
>>>> any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I seems to work perfectly for me but I have customized some startup 
>>> files.
>>>
>>> How are you starting XFce?  I start X with a  "exec 
>>> /usr/bin/startxfce4"  which executes my ~/.xfce4/xinitrc, which has 
>>> to be made executable:
>>>
>>> jkern at boat:~$ ls -l .xfce4/xinitrc
>>> -rwxr--r--    1 jkern    jkern         640 2004-02-29 20:39 
>>> .xfce4/xinitrc
>>>
>>> ~/.xfce4/xinitrc calls  /usr/bin/xfce4-session:
>>>
>>> jkern at boat:~$ tail -n 3 .xfce4/xinitrc
>>>
>>> exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session
>>>
>>> My ~/.xfce4/xinitrc is partly based on 
>>> /etc/xfce4/xinitrc.xfce4-session.  The whole ~/.xfce4/xinitrc is 
>>> pasted in below. ***
>>>
>>>>
>>>> ps. where are the session details stored? i use tmpfs for my /tmp 
>>>> directory, if that makes a difference (although sessions don't 
>>>> remain even without rebooting)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> jkern at boat:~$ ls -l .xfce4/sessions/
>>> total 8
>>> -rw-r--r--    1 jkern    jkern        2896 2004-02-26 22:47 xfsm-boat
>>> -rw-r--r--    1 jkern    jkern        1356 2004-02-26 22:47 
>>> xfwm4-11c0a80002000107741074500000010610001
>>>
>>> jkern at boat:~$ cat 
>>> .xfce4/sessions/xfwm4-11c0a80002000107741074500000010610001 
>>> [CLIENT_ID] 11c0a80002000107741074500000010610005
>>>  [CLIENT_LEADER] 0xe00001
>>>  [RES_NAME] xfce4-panel
>>>  [RES_CLASS] Xfce4-panel
>>>  [WM_NAME] XFce Panel
>>>  [WM_COMMAND] (3) "xfce4-panel" "--sm-client-id" 
>>> "11c0a800020001077410745000000
>>> 10610005"
>>>  [GEOMETRY] (122,714,759,54)
>>>  [GEOMETRY-MAXIMIZED] (181,822,775,42)
>>>  [DESK] 0
>>>  [FLAGS] 0x1000000
>>> [CLIENT] 0x1200030
>>>  [CLIENT_LEADER] 0x1200001
>>>  [RES_NAME] Gecko
>>>  [RES_CLASS] Mozilla-bin
>>>  [WM_NAME] Local Debian Start Page - Mozilla
>>>  [WM_COMMAND] (1) "/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin"
>>>  [GEOMETRY] (69,52,890,683)
>>>  [GEOMETRY-MAXIMIZED] (0,0,890,673)
>>>  [DESK] 0
>>>  [FLAGS] 0x20000000
>>> [CLIENT] 0xa00002
>>>  [CLIENT_ID] 11c0a80002000107741875300000019960002
>>>  [CLIENT_LEADER] 0xa00001
>>>  [RES_NAME] xftaskbar4
>>>  [RES_CLASS] Xftaskbar4
>>>  [WM_NAME] Task List
>>>  [WM_COMMAND] (3) "/usr/bin/xftaskbar4" "--sm-client-id" 
>>> "11c0a8000200010774187
>>> 5300000019960002"
>>>  [GEOMETRY] (0,0,1024,5)
>>>  [GEOMETRY-MAXIMIZED] (0,0,1152,1)
>>>  [DESK] 0
>>>  [FLAGS] 0x1000000
>>> [CLIENT] 0xc00002
>>>  [CLIENT_ID] 11c0a80002000107741074500000010610003
>>>  [CLIENT_LEADER] 0xc00001
>>>  [RES_NAME] xfdesktop
>>>  [RES_CLASS] Xfdesktop
>>>  [WM_NAME] Desktop
>>>  [WM_COMMAND] (3) "xfdesktop" "--sm-client-id" 
>>> "11c0a80002000107741074500000010
>>> 610003"
>>>  [GEOMETRY] (0,0,1152,864)
>>>  [GEOMETRY-MAXIMIZED] (0,0,1152,864)
>>>  [DESK] 1
>>>  [FLAGS] 0x1000000jkern at boat:~$
>>>
>>>
>>> *** My ~/.xfce4/xinitrc:
>>>
>>> cat .xfce4/xinitrc
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> # jack hacked Wed Feb 25 18:03:31 EST 2004
>>> xsetroot -solid black -cursor_name watch
>>>
>>> # Start stuff from ~/Desktop/Autostart directory, if it exists
>>>
>>> if [ -d "$HOME/Desktop/Autostart" ]; then
>>>  for i in `ls -1 ${HOME}/Desktop/Autostart/ 2>/dev/null`; do
>>>    if [ -x $HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i ]; then
>>>      $HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i &
>>>    fi
>>>  done
>>> fi
>>>
>>> # Setup environment
>>>
>>> if [ -f $HOME/.Xresources ]; then
>>>        xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources
>>> fi
>>>
>>> if [ -f $HOME/.bash_profile ]; then
>>>        . $HOME/.bash_profile
>>> fi
>>>
>>> if [ -f $HOME/.Xmodmap ]; then
>>>        xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap
>>> fi
>>>
>>> # Finally, launch XFce4 using xfce4-session
>>>
>>> exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am running:
>>>
>>> Linux boat 2.6.4-rc1 #2 Tue Mar 2 23:35:10 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux  
>>> --  Debian unstable
>>>
>>>
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