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Re: initial gnome-terminal fix (ATN-39)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Mon Feb 23 17:24:49 2009
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:23:28 -0500
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
This looks like a 100% correct and workable fix.
-Bill
On Feb 23, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Robert A Basch wrote:
> I investigated the bug where logout does not work from the initial
> gnome-terminal (https://jira.mit.edu/jira/browse/ATN-39). The
> problem is that we are launching gnome-terminal directly from our
> xsession script, so that it does not have the needed session
> environment set up in order for gnome-session-save to talk to
> the session manager.
>
> Assuming it is still preferred to support skip_initial_xterm, my
> proposed fix is to add a .desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart/, which
> will invoke a new /usr/lib/init/ script to start the gnome-terminal
> conditionally, based on whether an environment variable is set.
> xsession would set the environment variable, based on whether the user
> sets skip_initial_xterm, instead of launching gnome-terminal itself.
>
> Bob
>
