Comment 40 for bug 49594

There are two problems here for applets -- one is that b-a-s launches with the first gnome-session and seems to stick around way too long.

The second is that it inherits a Session Bus socket address that is only actually valid for one session. Bonobo has mechanisms for allowing its activated objects inherit specific environment variables from the launching process, rather than b-a-s. PLEASE direct all bugs for applets falling in this case to new reports. The fix is outlined in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/+bug/211604/comments/11 - try it.