No easy way to restore the session start programs to the default set

[Shahar Or]

Binary package hint: gnome-session

Dear friends,

I think that there should be a "Restore defaults" button which does just that. Currently, there's no apparent way for a user to restore the default set of startup programs.

Or perhaps this button should restore the default set and not delete the ones manually added by the user.

Many blessings.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gnome-session 2.26.0svn20090408-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-session
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This is basically the same problem as bug 364023

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Dear Chris,

how is it the same as bug 364023, please?

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Its the same underlying issue in both bug reports - that there's no way to restore the default session

[Daniel Hollocher (chogydan)]

Hi, this bug was marked a dupe of this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/364023

But, that bug is a dupe of this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/34321

If you feel this bug is another dupe, please set it.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

@Shahar Or: please don't reopen your own bugs without an explanation, it looks like you're being pushy.
@Chris: I don't think this is the same as bug 364023. That bug wants to be able to stop saving sessions automatically, no mention is made of manually added applications. This bug is asking for a way to remove non-default applications from the startup list. Very similar I agree, but not the same. This begs the question: 'Does gnome-session know the difference between applications added manually and those added by the session saving option?'

I have also forwarded this upstream

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

Sorry I meant of course bug #34321 in my previous comment.

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Thanks Duncan.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[Rykel from Singapore (rykel98)]

Hi,

I am using Ubuntu Lucid, and I would like to report that the System --> Preferences --> Startup Applications program is buggy when trying to activate and then DE-activate the "Automatically remember running applications when logging out" option.

I activated the option, logged out, logged in and yes, the running applications were reloaded.

But when I deselect the "Automatically..." function and logged out then logged in, the system was STILL trying to reload the previous set of running applications.

Hope somebody can enlighten me on this problem. Thank you so much!