Re: File manager nolonger starting on startup

[Greg Schafer <gschafer zip com au>]

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Marcus Brubaker wrote:

> > If I look at ~/.gnome/session *while* X is running with gmc, the lines are
> > there. But it looks like they're being removed as part of the logout
> > procedure.
> > 
> > If I terminate the X session with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, the lines stick, and
> > gmc comes up when I restart.
> 
> Of course, if you terminate with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, the session manager
> isn't given a chance to save it's session as if it's quitting.  I'm not
> sure if it is a bug in the session manager or in GMC, but I'm inclined to
> think it is in GMC since other applications seem to save fine (ie, panel
> comes back up, etc).  I would recommend that you submit a bug report on mc
> about this.  See http://bugs.gnome.org on how to do this.

FWIW, I also see the same behaviour with the Help Browser. Sometimes it
comes back, sometimes it doesn't. Happens with GMC as well but only
intermittently. I tend to think it's a bug in session manager but what
would I know :-)


	Greg