xfce4-session warning about an unresolvable local hostname

[Nick Schermer]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Benedikt Meurer
<benedikt.meurer at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 22, 2011, at 00:14 , Nick Schermer wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org> wrote:
> Hm, seems strange, a host that cannot resolve "localhost", what is the rational behind this in openSUSE?
>
>> I agree, maybe Benny can enlighten us what the purpose was of this
>> message, but to me it seems unrelated to the desktop.
>
> IIRC the SESSION_MANAGER environment variable contained "localhost", so if session clients are unable to resolve "localhost", they will not be able to connect to the session manager. This might have changed in libSM/libICE since then (most probably, otherwise nothing would work on openSUSE).

It still does, maybe we need to clarify the message a bit more and add
a checkbox to hide the message.

nick at schermer ~$ echo $SESSION_MANAGER
local/schermer:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/1052,unix/schermer:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1052

Nick