Re: session manager problem (was Re: [Nautilus-list] nautilus 1.0.3 problem)

[Darin Adler <darin eazel com>]

On Tuesday, May 15, 2001, at 06:43  PM, John Harper wrote:

> Darin Adler writes:
> |	To fix this problem, John Harper changed 1.0.3 to remove itself from
> |the session manager when the program was invoked from the command line.
> |Unfortunately, it seems that this in turn prevents Nautilus from starting
> |up again next time you log in. There is code to put Nautilus back in the
> |session manager at Nautilus quit time, but normally Nautilus does not 
> quit.
> |  This I think is the flaw with the 1.0.3 change.
>
> I'm not sure I agree with this analysis.
>
> The change I made was to add nautilus to the session in `trash' mode
> unless the desktop window is active. I don't think there is any code to
> make session management changes at quit time (I did think of fixing the
> problem this way, but didn't in the end)
>
> One possibility is that the update_session () function that initializes
> the restart mode is sometimes called before the desktop window is
> initialized, so the nautilus_application_desktop_window is still NULL,
> and the wrong restart mode is chosen.
>
> But since I can't reproduce the bug, I can't test this..

OK. I'm glad I had it wrong. I'll add your comments to the bug report soon.

    -- Darin