Session support is broken

[Reuben Thomas]

In 3.8, gnome-terminal saved session information in ~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session, and restarted after logging out and back in. In 3.10, it no longer does; other apps continue to work fine.

(I am using the Ubuntu-specific workaround GNOME_SESSION_SAVE environment variable set to yes in order to get session support.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.10.2-0ubuntu1~saucy1 [origin: LP-PPA-gnome3-team-gnome3]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 20 02:28:48 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-05-24 (971 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-10 (101 days ago)

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

Session support has been unsupported in Ubuntu for a few years now, since it never worked properly anyway.

gnome-terminal removed session code from 3.8, in favour of using gtk api's however they don't yet support saving sessions.

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

Session support has always worked fine for me (modulo having to activate it via GNOME_SESSION_SAVE).

Thanks for the explanation.

[Bruce Pieterse (octoquad)]

Tim, has this been fixed yet in vivid or wiley?