Strange exit behaviour of GUI programs in Xfce on Logout

[Olivier Fourdan]

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 00:20 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> following problem: I wrote an application which should save some
> information on exit. The application doesn't use session management
> (it's very simple, doesn't even have a real GUI, the connection to the
> X-Server is only to get closed on logout).

If you run the session manager, the "--daemon" option in xfwm4 is simply
ignored (because it's the SM that manages the startup)

So in your later example, the one that doesn't work, I believe your test
program is simply not executed.

HTH
Olivier.