"Remember Currently-Running Application" fails to work

[Delan Azabani]

The "Remember Currently-Running Application" button in "Startup Applications" says that the session is remembered when clicked, however does not restore the running session next login - the session starts blank as normal.

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in gnome-session.

In addition, I cannot reproduce this bug: the session is really remembered when I click this button and log out (This is on a 10.10 install). Thus, I'll mark this bug as Invalid.

[Peter Žagar (peter-zagar)]

I'm running latest Maverick release with all the updated packages up to date. I upgraded from 10.04 LTS.
After upgrade the button that should save currently running applications indeed fails to save them. And I'm not talking about one application. The description of the problem is accurate.

I can only add my example.
I fresh-start the computer, login to gnome session.
I start only applications that I would like them to be remembered next time I reboot. For example, Tomboy notes and Nagstamon. Then I press the "Remember Currently Running Application" button in "Startup Applications". It says "Your session has been saved." After reboot, the applications don't start automatically. I also had them remembered before I upgraded from 10.04 and it worked normally. Curiously enough, Pidgin was remembered in my 10.04 installation, and it also get started in my upgraded 10.10 installation.

Is there maybe any way to purge this list of rememberd applications manually from console and start from scratch?
Maybe it's simply an inconsistency from the upgrade.

[Peter Žagar (peter-zagar)]

Ok, I tried to delete the session folder ~/.config/gnome-session and start fresh.

After reboot and saving the applications again, the folder gets created and the files are saved.

-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 774 2010-10-22 08:56 10188633fdd62d0620128773044546411000000025460041.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 711 2010-10-22 08:56 10188633fdd62d0620128773044547587200000025460042.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 773 2010-10-22 08:56 10188633fdd62d0620128773044548468100000025460043.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 375 2010-10-22 08:56 10188633fdd62d0620128773048658465400000025460045.desktop

But the applications still don't get started after reboot.

[Peter Žagar (peter-zagar)]

I don't see what could be wrong. Are file permissions ok? Can someone with working configuration confirm?

[Peter Žagar (peter-zagar)]

Bump.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Sorry that this bug report could not be resolved before the Ubuntu version expired. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since then, and the bug may have been fixed. If you still have the problem with a current version of Ubuntu, please reopen this report.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-session (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]