From kde-devel  Thu Jul 22 08:34:14 1999
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:34:14 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: bug in session management?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93264536811824

Simon Hausmann wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Matthias Elter wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just noticed that the session management is broken for me:
> > > When logging out all the apps save their stuff correctly in foobarrc.1 (or
> > > whatever the session number is) . When starting up again, all apps get
> > > executed with the correct cmdlines ("-restore foobarrc.1" ,...) , but
> > > these config files get deleted *before* the apps can actually read them.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I've not been able to determine *where* they get deleted.
> > >
> > > Is it just me or is this a general bug?
> >
> > Are you talking about HEAD or 1.x branch? AFAIK session management in HEAD is
> > not meant to work (Matthias Ettrich works on a rewrite).
> 
> HEAD of course ;-)
> 
> I know that we're all waiting for kwin, but I thought that the old stuff
> would still work. Well, now I know :-)

I fixed the bug that the config file got deleted *before* the apps can read it.
Please test if session management works now. I think it should. The session 
config file now gets deleted when the application exits. 

Cheers,
Waldo
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