<quote who="Sonia Hamilton"> > I've noticed that sessions don't work very well in Ubuntu Dapper (compared > to Breezy) - anyone know of a solution? What I mean is that the screen > position of apps isn't saved on logout, unlike it used to be in Breezy.
Which apps in particular? Unfortunately, due to the way that old-school session management works, this generally comes down to application bugs. [ It's almost unfortunate that we (GNOME) expose session support - as it currently stands - in the UI because so few apps actually support the old-school X session stuff. Firefox is the biggest example here, being one app that people *really* want good session management support for. ] > Also, Dapper now has that 'user friendly' logout out screen - anyone know > how to remove that and go back to the old system, where logout gave you > the option to save a session? The Dapper logout dialogue is an Ubuntu-local change, but it turns out that the new logout dialogues in GNOME (and upstream change) also remove the session save checkbox - largely due to the aforementioned breakages and lack of application support (leading to inconsistent user experience). The worst thing about the session support is that by saving at log out, you could actually totally break your session, stopping you from logging in the next time. Not good. Despite that, if you want to try the upstream style logout stuff, you can do so by changing an Ubuntu-local gconf key: /apps/panel/global/upstream_session = true Really good session support, which so many people would like to see, is a unfortunately a huge problem to solve - throughout the entire FOSS desktop development community. Firefox supports A, GNOME supports B, KDE supports C, OpenOffice.org supports D, some support bits and pieces of each - it's an enormous mess. I can only say sorry. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ No match for "LINUSWEARSTHEPANTS.ORG". -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
