Comment 5 for bug 1254881

@thad-fisch
yes, i did. now, the session management became a real nightmare. it was always broken in ubuntu 13.10, but it used to work without problems in ubuntu 13.04. something like a month or two ago, a xfce update broke that also in 13.04. btw, i have backports switched on...

i regularly have to do a manual cleaning of processes. usually two power-managers are started which disables all the related functionality like screen dimming, hibernation etc. i kill all duplicate processes mentioned above in the bug report, then do a desktop restart (sometimes killing and restarting needs a second cycle).

power-manager issue is quite annoying since relying on critical battery level setting i regularly experience draining of the battery (with consequent crash) when two power-managers are running and not managing anything.

and volume controls don't work when two volumeds are running...

what changed between those two versions? i never had to care about the xfce session settings, except for maybe switching off the session saving...?

is seems when the fxce desktop is not closed properly, the running processes leave files somewhere, according to which they are restarted on next login irrespective of the "save-session" flag. maybe the logic should be reverted, instead of "save-session" a "restore-session" should be programmed since it seems running processes in a session are saved/identified by default.