xfce4-session multisession

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Fri Jan 23 11:43:58 CET 2004


Matt Lancereau wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Matt Lancereau wrote:
> 
> just found in manager.c :
> 
> +  /* check if theres already a session manager running */
> +  if (g_getenv("SESSION_MANAGER") != NULL) {
> +    g_warning("Another session manager is already running, unable to
> continue");
> +    return(FALSE);
> +  }
> +
> 
> I removed those line and all works. Are there any reasons that those lines
> were added ? Something about security or whatever ?

This is used to prevent xfce4-session from starting inside another session 
(there is no SM client mode available for xfce4-session).

> Cheers, Matt.

Benedikt

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