GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 317189
Settings broken when two different gnome-session for the same user run on the same machine
Last modified: 2007-01-08 14:41:16 UTC
Distribution: Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 Package: gnome-session Severity: normal Version: GNOME2.10.2 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: Gentoo Synopsis: Settings broken when two different gnome-session for the same user run on the same machine Bugzilla-Product: gnome-session Bugzilla-Component: gnome-session Bugzilla-Version: unspecified Description: Description of Problem: Various settings break when two different sessions run for the same user. This includes: - Font scaling information - Desktop icons - they are all displayed as emtpy sheets of paper Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Start one gnome-session 2. Start another gnome-session on another X display (for example via X11-forwarding by ssh), esp. with a different resolution example: echo "ssh -YC GNOMEHOSTNAME gnome-session" > remotegnome XINITRC=remotegnome xinit Actual Results: icons broken. font scaling wrong on the second gnome-session. Expected Results: icons and fonts working as usual. How often does this happen? everytime. Additional Information: ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@gnome.bugs 2005-09-25 22:22 UTC ------- The original reporter of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the person who moved it here, unknown@gnome.bugs. Previous reporter was bmichaelsen@gmx.de.
*** Bug 341121 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83835 ***