Some questions about session saving

[Olivier Fourdan]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:28:49PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:14:06PM +0000, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>> > > XFCE seems not to be saving sessions properly for me.  Every so often
>> > > when I start up I get *all* my application windows started up in the
>> > > same Workspace.
>> > >
>> > > Is this a known bug or have I misunderstood something or have I got a
>> > > broken installation?
>> >
>> > Can you provide a bit more details about the applications? Can you
>> > provide the content of ~/.cache/sessions/xfwm4-<sessionid>?
>> >
>> The applications are just a whole lot of Terminal windows (Gnome
>> Terminal 2.24.1) and Firefox distributed over five workspaces.
>>
>> The files in ~/.cache/sessions are:-
>>
>>     Thunar-117f000101000122400734000000079700002  xfwm4-117f000101000122410508700000177870000
>>     Thunar-117f000101000122401935100000114400002  xfwm4-117f000101000122410529900000182560000
>>     Thunar-117f000101000122632269200000073890002  xfwm4-117f000101000122414714200000064980000
>>     xfce4-session-chris-ubuntu:0                  xfwm4-117f000101000122631611900000065490000
>>     xfce4-session-chris-ubuntu:0.bak              xfwm4-117f000101000122631715800000065030000
>>     xfwm4-117f000101000122401935100000114400000   xfwm4-117f000101000122632235000000063160000
>>     xfwm4-117f000101000122410493800000064510001
>>
>> So which one refers to the current session?  :-)
>>
> I'm wondering if maybe the issue is that every time xfce (or some part
> of it) is updated the session saving reverts to saving the current
> session on exit (which I don't want it to do).  I have just reset the
> session saving settings to what I want (*don't* automatically save)
> for the umpteenth time.  Having stopped it from automatically saving
> it's now restoring my session as I want it.
>
> However there is another issue, xfce takes *ages* to actually start up
> after I've logged in, I get a disjointed display of the mouse with the
> circulating thing around it flicking around on a blank screen for tens
> of seconds before my workspaces appear.  This is on a new quad-core
> system with 8Gb of memory.

Disable the splash screen, that might let you see what takes so long?

Cheers,
Olivier.