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Session starts programs multiple times
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED
Product:
Xfce4-session
Component:
General

Comments

Description Tom 2014-03-06 05:41:15 CET
I have XFCE configured to "save session for future logins". I also use the Copy cloud storage tool. When XFCE starts, it usually starts 2 instances of Copy in the tray, even though there is only one instance of Copy open when I shutdown.

I'm using 4.10 on 64bit openSUSE 13.1.
Comment 1 Tom 2014-03-06 14:42:39 CET
This morning my saved session disappeared - XFCE started with no errors displayed, and no remembered windows/apps opened.

Why would that happen if my last GUI session closed normally? I could understand oddities happening after a GUI crash, but that didn't happen.
Comment 2 Tom 2014-03-08 02:45:57 CET
Today it started 3 copies of Krusader, even though I know I only had one open when I shut down. It has done this multiple times with Krusader, but not for every reboot, and never with another app - only Krusader has created 3 copies (other apps have 2 copies, as previously mentioned.)
Comment 3 lockywolf 2018-07-21 05:56:44 CEST
I second this bug.

I meet multiple launches all the time.

I suspect that in my case it's caused by the fact that my applications (hexchat and pidgin) are added to the 'autostart' menu:

Settings->Session and Startup->Application Autostart

And I suspect that their existence is also saved into some 'session state' upon logout, so xfce starts them twice, as a piece of the session and as a piece of the autostart.

Meanwhile you can't just remove them from the autostart, because you don't always need to save the session.
Comment 4 Simon Steinbeiss editbugs 2019-05-18 22:52:35 CEST
If you have applications in the autostart *and* in the saved session, they will be started multiple times.

The two are not cross-checked by xfce4-session.
Comment 5 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-26 00:45:37 CEST
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Bug #10730

Reported by:
Tom
Reported on: 2014-03-06
Last modified on: 2020-05-26

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Assignee:
Xfce Bug Triage
CC List:
5 users

Version

Version:
4.10.0

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