Comment 9 for bug 49594

Rouben, you asked:

"Does the same problem happen when you log out *properly*? :) If this only happens when you forcefully kill X, I doubt the Gnome developers would be interested in looking into this issue, because recent versions of gnome depend on a whole whack of background processes that don't get killed off properly when X is killed using the emergency "Control+Alt+Backspace" key combination. That's because that key combination is not really for normal use..."

This does not happen when normally logging out, except that gnome does not allow you to log out or interact any way with the session for at least a minute after first login. So if you want to logout before that time you have to press ctrl+alt+backspace. Moreover, server grabs have locked the x session in many situations in front of my eyes. It is sad to say so, but we don't yet have the necessary stability to say that ctrl+alt+backspace is for exceptional situations. If my session deadlocks, and I press ctrl+alt+backspace, I am already upset. If I can't login and get back to work immediately, guess what will I say :) We *have* to unbreak this "session does not go away, session does not allow you to logout" thing that has been broken since the first release of gnome2 - and that, by the way, works in kde and xfce, and used to work in fvwm, afterstep and windowmaker.