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Re: Bug in session management

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Tue May 23 12:09:00 2000

To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 23 May 2000 12:08:56 -0400
In-Reply-To: Richard Tibbetts's message of "Mon, 22 May 2000 23:22:41 EDT"
Message-ID: <u1hr9at2qqv.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>

Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU> writes:

> The Gnome session management code will try and run programs which were
> running when you last logged out.
> 
> This loses if you last logged into a sun, and then log into a linux
> machine, trying to run /mit/aui/arch/sun4x_56/bin/gnome-terminal
> 
> My first thought is to patch the session management code to recognize
> instances of (for example) sun4x_56 when saving stuff and to replace
> it with the actual text ${ATHENA_SYS}.
> 
> Anyone else have a better solution?

I think that's an excellent solution.

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