gnome-session

Applications are restarted at launch even though "Automatically remember running applications when logging out" is disabled

Bug #364023 reported by Carey Underwood
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gnome-session
New
Unknown
gnome-session (Debian)
New
Undecided
Unassigned
gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Disabling "Automatically remember running applications when logging out" in the Startup Applications Preferences window doesn't disable application that were previously remembered. Gedit, gnome-terminal and firefox still fire up automatically even after several reboots/relogs.

Those applications are not listed in startup programs/

A clean logout seems to be required in order to prevent those applications from auto-launching, however, in many desktop situations a proper log-out may be very rare, far outnumbered by kernel hangs (in my case, due to known issues with ext4), or physical issues (power outages, etc).

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Daniel Hollocher (chogydan) wrote :

I noticed this on my main machine, and tested in a VM. I can confirm this bug. But, logging out does not fix the problem for me.

I have to re-enable the option, turn off the programs, reboot with nothing on, _then_ turn off the option.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Confirmed
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Taber Andrew Bain (taber) wrote :

Ditto danielhollocher -- I experienced this problem, and had to follow the same steps to fix it (re-enable the option, quit all programs, reboot with nothing running, then turn off the option).

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bastafidli (ubuntu-bastafidli) wrote :

This is definitely present in Jaunty 9.04 and the steps displayed here work as a workaround, but they are certainly very hard and time contly to follow for multiple users.

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Daniel Hollocher (chogydan) wrote :

alright, Imma gonna try to file this upstream.

affects: ubuntu → gnome-session (Ubuntu)
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Changed in gnome-session:
status: Unknown → New
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Daniel Hollocher (chogydan) wrote :

ok, I filed this bug under gnome-session, since that is the package of gnome-session-properties, and thats the dialog that contains the malfunctioning option.

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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cdaaawg (cdaaawg) wrote :

I too have encountered this bug and the workaround did solve the vexation. However, I would like to know where the "Automatically remember running applications when logging out" setting is stored so I can script the work around using gconftool or some other scriptable tool.

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