Re: Clearing out session list

[Martin Alonso Soto Jacome <masoto uniandes edu co>]

beirne@neo.lrun.com wrote:
> Gnome is working well for me except for one problem.  When I start up gnome, I 
> end up starting up a bunch of old sessions that no longer exist, like a real 
> audio player I used 3 days ago and 5 xterms.  How do I clear out the session 
> list, and avoid accumulating new ones beyond the windows that I leave open 
> when I log out?  I'm using RedHat 5.1 and fvwm2.

Same problem here with Debian and fvwm95.  The only solution I found, was 
replacing the xterm (or other undesired program) entries in ~/.gnome/session 
by /bin/true, so that /bin/true is invoked instead of xterm in the next 
session.  For that trick to work you have to leave gnome and make the 
modifications from a text console (urgh!).

A bug somewhere in the session manager must be causing this, but I have no 
idea about X session management to attempt to fix it by myself.

Regards,

M. S.


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Martin A. Soto J.                           Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
Universidad de los Andes      masoto@uniandes.edu.co