On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 10:29 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* phanisvara das
[02-09-12 10:20]: systemsettings -> startup & shutdown -> session management -> on login
i always choose "start with an empty session," since otherwise funny things like you describe are bound to happen sooner or later. if there are app.s i start in almost every session, i rather write a script in ~/bin and call that when i need it.
After further thought, I believe the solution to the presented case would be to save a particular session and set session management to always start with that "saved" session and not "auto-start" anything. That would allay the unwanted multiple app problem and still start the session with the desired app.
We start three thingies in Autostart. In a perfect world, they never die. In reality, sh*t happens. So I would not want to have to guarantee that these thingies have all survived until the session is ended. That is why they are in the Autostart. In KDE 4.7 (on openUSE 11.2), this all acted differently. We did have the sessions restart. Open konsoles, for example, were restarted. However, the things we had in Autostart were not restarted as part of the session. I 'thought' it was the case that an application had to register with the window manager in some way to say that it wanted to be managed in the session. KDE apps, for example, do this in KDE. The problematic app (navit) perhaps is now different and is registering itself to be restarted? The change may very well be there, and not KDE. Or, the KDE in openSUSE 12.1 is more aggressive in adding applications to the session. But it would be a bug for it to add applications it started in the Autostart folder, as it would lead to what I see. I am leaning to navit itself being the culprit. But KDE is still in my sights...
note: solution *only* for Roger's particular problem.
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