The good old session bug

Andreas Müller schnitzeltony at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 11 10:06:11 CET 2012


On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Sergio <sergiocmailbox-xfce at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> On 12/09/2012 03:00 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
>>
>> On 09.12.2012, Ray Andrews wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds like the good old 'sessions' bug to me.  Try this after you've
>>> quit
>>> xfce:
>>>
>>> rm ~/.cache/sessions/xfce*
>>>
>>> That won't break anything it it's *not* the sessions bug, but if it is,
>>> it
>>> will fix it.
>>> At least until next time.
>>
>>
>> Until next time :-(
>>
>> I seriously wonder why this bug is still around. Is it that hard to
>> track down, or what's the cause for this insane behaviour?
>>
>> What's even more strange is that I've been using XFCE really a loooong
>> time
>> and have never ever encountered this bug myself. My wife uses XFCE and
>> hasn't seen it either. BUT I've seen it often on others machines,
>> which I installed. Once occured, never cured.
>
>
> Me too. I use it for maybe not so long and also never got it.
> But I never use gedit either and it seem that app is a known culprit.
>
>>
>> Is there something which can be done to get rid of this for alltime?
>> Is there any workaround which solves the problem permanently?
>>
>> I have access to at least one machine which regularly shown this
>> behaviour (window borders vanish and so on..), so if I can help please
>> contact me.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Heinz.
>>
I may be wrong but I think the bug was fixed in git repo [1]

Andreas

[1] http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/commit/?id=9f3077be682355e1cd07e9a9463e76307292208c


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