[opensuse-kde] chromium "Restore?" at every login
Hello, Its been a couple years, thought I would check in on this issue. In the past upstream has said non-bug, its a problem with your window manager or kde. And downstream says its an upstream problem... more or less thats how it goes... chrome/chromium wants to be closed a certain way and KDE isn't doing it that way. Anyway the issue is, everytime I login to KDE and start chromium, I get the "Restore Pages?" prompt. Yes thats what I want to happen automatically, put all my tabs back how I left them when I quit. But the prompt comes up and I have to click the prompt. I do this several times a day, every day. Any hope to fix this year? thanks, sincerely john -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
Am Freitag, 21. September 2018, 20:29:11 schrieb s2 johnm:
Any hope to fix this year?
Well, it probably won't get fixed by mentioning it *here*... ;-) X11 Session management is a client/server protocol (in this case, Plasma/ksmserver is the "server" and Chrome/Chromium is the "client"), it needs to be implemented correctly by *both* sides to make it work as expected. So, the main question is which side is "wrong", I suppose. As it works with other clients AFAICT, one could argue that the problem lies rather with Chrome/Chromium than with Plasma/ksmserver, but it might be an edge case. Maybe you could provide references to your statement that both sides say it's a problem on the other side? (to have more context) What *might* happen is that Chrome/Chromium doesn't respond in time to the request to save its state, and so gets killed by ksmserver (which actually *is* part of the protocol AFAIK). I don't have Chrome or Chromium installed myself though, so can't tell what happens. Kind Regards, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
Here are some recent references. I haven't found the one yet where a chromium dev said WONTFIX, but i've seen it more than once in the past. Strange I can't find my old bug reports either. oh well. From what i've read KDE / Plasma is not at fault IMO. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1051597/chrome-is-not-correctly-closed-when-... https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=429404 https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=126520 https://superuser.com/questions/237608/how-to-hide-chrome-warning-after-cras... thanks, johnm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
Am Dienstag, 25. September 2018, 22:32:29 schrieb s2 johnm:
From what i've read KDE / Plasma is not at fault IMO.
Yes, from what I read in your links, it's supposedly a problem in Chrome/Chromium indeed. (and the Chromium bug report you posted is still open...) A suggestion is that it crashes on logout, do you experience that? If you have the package "systemd-coredump" installed, that should be listed by running "coredumpctl", I suppose. Not much we can do here from the KDE (or even openSUSE) side then, I'm afraid. I may try to install chromium and have a look, but I don't want to promise it TBH. (and actually I don't really want to hunt down and fix bugs in Chromium anyway... :-/ ) Just out of curiosity: does it help if you switch Plasma to "Restore manually saved session" (in systemsettings5->"Startup and Shutdown"->"Desktop Session") and do save the session manually (in the application launcher)? Kind Regards, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
On Thursday, September 27, 2018 10:48:05 AM AKDT Wolfgang Bauer wrote:
Am Dienstag, 25. September 2018, 22:32:29 schrieb s2 johnm:
From what i've read KDE / Plasma is not at fault IMO.
Yes, from what I read in your links, it's supposedly a problem in Chrome/Chromium indeed. (and the Chromium bug report you posted is still open...)
A suggestion is that it crashes on logout, do you experience that? If you have the package "systemd-coredump" installed, that should be listed by running "coredumpctl", I suppose.
Yes but you don't really see it. I don't think it throws an exception or anything. It handles the kill SIG, but it just doesn't like it. I think Chromium is either slow about closing, or just ignores the request. It is always the last window hanging around on logout. The taskbar and desktop is already closed, and you see the Chromium window sitting there for a moment. Then I guess KDE decides to kill it. Logout finishes. And Chromium now thinks that it has crashed, and it marks a file to know that it has crashed. Next login, start Chromium and you get the "Restore Pages?" prompt. One workaround I've read is to write a launch script to "unmark the crash". Kind of a hack, who knows if that will survive future updates. I've tried a plasma shutdown script to close it cleanly, but it's not fast enough or happens too late..? :/ I have reasons for not using Firefox, so i'm kinda stuck with Chromium. One could just close chromium before logging out, but I've developed a reflex for clicking the "Restore" prompt.
Not much we can do here from the KDE (or even openSUSE) side then, I'm afraid.
I may try to install chromium and have a look, but I don't want to promise it TBH. (and actually I don't really want to hunt down and fix bugs in Chromium anyway... :-/ )
I can understand that.
Just out of curiosity: does it help if you switch Plasma to "Restore manually saved session" (in systemsettings5->"Startup and Shutdown"->"Desktop Session") and do save the session manually (in the application launcher)?
I will try it. thanks, johnm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
This is working for me! Seems like I tried something like this in the past and it didn't work. But it is now. -johnm #!/bin/bash # # KDE logout script # try to workaround the stupid "Restore Pages" prompt that always comes up when starting chromium # after a logout. 'cleanly' close it so the WM doesn't kill it in a way that chromium doesn't # like. killall chromium sleep 1 echo "chromium down." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
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