xfce4-session reports "Another session manager is already running" when trying to start an xfce4 desktop inside a VNC session and another xfce4 desktop is running on the console. Very crude workaround: Start the VCN/xfce4 session in a text console before starting a xfce4 session on the main console. I found this when googling around for a solution: "commit b0eec65b45fe4417351ca86f85095232df6d2f95 Author: Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org> Date: Thu Dec 11 17:09:25 2003 +0000 Added check to see if another session is already running." Steps to reproduce: 1) log into an xfce4 on the main console 2a) start a VNC desktop with 'startxfce4' in the ~/.vnc/xstartup 3a) Log into VNC, admire the blank screen and notice the error message in the VNC log file. or 2b) start a VNC session with only an xterm in the xstartup file (no window manager, or anything else) 3b) try to start a xfce4 desktop with startxfce4 or xfce4-session Actual result: error message in the VNC log file or in the xterm: "Another session manager is already running" Expected results: A running xfce desktop session Platform: Debian Wheezy This bug has also been reported in XFCE4.6: Bug 7502
(In reply to comment #0) PS: this bug is still present in XFCE 4.10.0 (Debian Wheezy with xfce4 from ' experimental')
Hello, You don't need to open a bug report for each version of Xfce, one is enough. Marking this as duplicate of the oldest. Cheers, Jérôme *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7502 ***