GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 115223
gnome-session opens gdict window on login when gdict-applet is on panel
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I permanently keep the gdict applet on my panel. When I log in, gnome-session opens a gdict window. Surely gnome-session should be able to start the gdict applet without also opening a gdict window like this - after all, when you add a gdict applet to the panel it doesn't open a gdict window. Using Red Hat 9 (all updates) and XD2, gnome-utils-2.2.3-0.ximian.6.1 (although I had this behaviour with Red Hat's gnome-utils and with Garnome too).
Are you saving your session with the dictionary window open? Please launch 'Desktop Preferences->Advanced->Sessions'. Click on the 'Current Session' tab and browse the list for 'gnome-dictionary'. If you find it, remove it from the list and apply the change to your session.
"Are you saving your session with the dictionary window open?" No. (My sessions settings are set to automatically save session on logout.) "Click on the 'Current Session' tab and browse the list for 'gnome-dictionary'. If you find it, remove it from the list and apply the change to your session." Okay, I did that, and logged out. Then I logged back in and the gdict window did NOT open (and the gdict panel applet WAS on the panel). However, I then immediately logged out again, and then logged back in and the session opened a gdict window again (and no, there was no gdict window open when I logged out; in fact there were no windows open when I logged out).
This is a duplicate of bug 101508, I've seen a bunch of similar reports on bugzilla, most of them marked as resolved, e.g. bug 99325 But somehow it seems to be impossible to permanently keep this stupid little app from launching at startup without removing the - indeed - useful applet. I'm seeing the same here, gnome-utils 2.2.1, from Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable. It has persisted throuought all of Gnome 2. Even if there is no gnome-dictionary process running, just the applet sitting on the panel, "gnome-dictionary" is *always* added to the session file and always starts at next login. I can remove it, just as the reporter described, and logon back into Gnome, but next time, the gdict window again pops up. I have heard similar reports from others on de.comp.unix.apps.gnome, and since I have read a number of related reports, I really believed and hoped this was going to be fixed ASAP. If I can provide info useful to finally have this fixed, please let me know.
Erm, I meant Bugs 99325 and 115223.
It also happens on my work and home machines (and those are two different distributions). Despite closing the gdict window and saving the session, the dictionary window popus up every time I start GNOME. Annoying, especially for non-technical users who can't edit session files themselves (or don't even know what "session file" means).
I was able to duplicate this on 2.2.x GNOME by saving session (with only the applet and not the full app running). I am not able to duplicate it on the final 2.4 release candidate, so I believe it's now somehow magically fixed. Anyone who had the problem on 2.2.x now running 2.3.x-era GNOME?
Hmmm ... is anyone still seeing this? I'm the original reporter, and this got fixed at some point even though I'm still on XD2 which is GNOME 2.2.x based. If no one is seeing this in 2.4.x or 2.5.x then I guess this should be closed.
Based on Darren's comment, I'll go ahead and close this.