Re: g-s-d and SM

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="jacob berkman">

> 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.

Ah, so that's what it is! This started happening on my iBook, and I couldn't
figure it out to lodge a bug on it.

> g-s-d not running causes tons of "bugs" to the user, and i fear this
> will be a common problem with gnome 2.

Not easily user-solvable either, I concur.

- Jeff

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