Re: g-s-d and SM

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:

D> On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 13:05, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> > 
> > > as reported in bug #85030, if g-s-d gets lost from the session, and
> > > activated by one of the capplets, it won't register with the session
> > > manager, so won't be started on login next time.
> > > 
> > > at this point, the user can't even manually start g-s-d to add it to
> > > their session, since there's already one running.
> > > 
> > > a couple of options:
> > > 
> > >         1.  add something to tell g-s-d the SM
> > 
> > Is this thought incomplete?
> 
> no, just poorly communicated.
> 
> "add something to tell the g-s-d where the SM is" maybe?
> 
> basically tell it what's in $SESSION_MANAGER.
> 
> > 
> > >         2.  have gnome-session start g-s-d via bonobo-activation and
> > >         remove it from the session
> > 
> > I might vote for this one.
> 
> yeah this seems more fool-proof, except that we don't get the
> restart-on-exit feature of having it be in the SM.  and i'm not sure how
> to fix this?  an n-second timer which tries to make sure it's active?
> 
> > >         3.  punt it, since this shouldn't be happening
> > >         4.  something else?
> > 
> > Along these lines, we were going to write a sanity-checker to make sure
> > that your environment (mostly GConf and ORBit related) was sane when
> > starting GNOME.  Did that ever happen, Havoc?
> 
> gnome-login-check has already supposed to checking the sanity of the
> orbit stuff (although reports from wipro indicate that it's not) and
> last week i committed a patch from havoc to run gconf-sanity-check there
> as well.
> 
> i'd almost want to have something run after login to check that
> nautilus, the panel, etc. are running...

A gnome-sanity-post-check program to be run after the whole session is
finished?

I like it.  We can give people the option of using the default session
if things were screwed up.  I think this makes a lot of sense to do.

-Jonathan