[desktop-discuss] nasty session save bug

Shawn Walker swalker at opensolaris.org
Mon Sep 17 20:48:30 PDT 2007


If you:

1) setup your session to automatically save (via preferences ->
sessions -> session options )

2) save your session

3) open a nautilus folder that is full screen or big and in the middle

4) then use the shutdown button on the jds menu

5) next time you log-in you will get a dialog asking you to make a
choice to suspend, shutdown, or cancel

The problem with this dialog is that it is modal, but it is not set
for "always on top" so you can't click cancel because of the open
folder and you can't alt-tab to it, and you have to
control-alt-backspace, do a console login, remove your session file,
and then login again.

I don't think that the suspend/shutdown/whatever dialog should come up
when restoring a saved session.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. " --Donald Knuth


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