Description of problem: Once the "Automatically save changes to session" option has been used, this option cannot be later de-selected without causing extraneous windows to appear at every subsequent login. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-session-2.13.92-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. In gnome-session-properties, select the "Automatically save changes..." option, then click on "Close". 2. Log out, then log back in. 3. In gnome-session-properties, de-select the "Automatically save changes..." option, then click on "Close". 4. Log out, then log back in. Actual results: Two extra windows will appear, (1) a Nautilus window showing the home directory, and (2) a gnome-session-properties window. Expected results: These extra windows, which were not open when the "saved" session was closed, should not appear. Additional info:
I have this too, very anoying. What is also anoying and caused me to trigger this bug is that the logout / shutdown dialogs no longer ask to save the session, not even when the ask on logout checkbox in gnome-session-properties is checked, I'll file a seperate bug for this.
The workaround is to manually edit ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-session/options/%gconf.xml to turn off the auto_save_session option rather than using the gnome-session-properties tool to do that. Note that your session will still get saved one last time after you do that, but that save won't include any extraneous windows. ( You can still call this "user-friendly" as long as you use a user-friendly text editor for the task. ;-)
I'm seeing this problem in FC6 ...
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I've just tried to reproduce this on a Fedora 7 test3 system and this still happens, although slightly different. The original bug description was: --- Steps to Reproduce: 1. In gnome-session-properties, select the "Automatically save changes..." option, then click on "Close". 2. Log out, then log back in. 3. In gnome-session-properties, de-select the "Automatically save changes..." option, then click on "Close". 4. Log out, then log back in. Actual results: Two extra windows will appear, (1) a Nautilus window showing the home directory, and (2) a gnome-session-properties window. Expected results: These extra windows, which were not open when the "saved" session was closed, should not appear. --- With Fedora 7 test3, only one extra window appears, the Nautilus window showing the home directory. So tihs is partially fixed. Appearantly when nautilius was set up to remember any and all open nautilus windows when the last session ended, and when the session starts there is no fresh info, it goes to its default behavious of opening a home-dir window. I think this might be a nautilus bug.
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Still present in Fedora 8. Symptoms same as described in comment #5 (above) for F 7 test 3 -- an extra Nautilus window opens. This is in a newly installed and updated Fedora 8.
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