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Bug 625881 - Autorestart doesn't work except for autostarted applications
Autorestart doesn't work except for autostarted applications
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-session
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Session Maintainers
Session Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-08-02 22:08 UTC by Owen Taylor
Modified: 2021-06-14 18:21 UTC
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Description Owen Taylor 2010-08-02 22:08:13 UTC 
The autorestart code in _disconnect_client requires an application ID to restart the application (e.g., for GSM_CLIENT_RESTART_IMMEDIATELY). 

However, I don't think we ever set an application ID except when we are autostarting an application. There is code in gsm-xsmp-client.c to to find a desktop file for an arbitrary client, but it is only called when we are saving the session. It isn't used to set the application ID for the client object on connection.

This means, for example, that metacity restarts on crash if started with the session, but if you switch managers, or run 'metacity --replace' manually, it will no longer restart on crash.

(See bug 569289)
Comment 1 André Klapper 2021-06-14 18:21:38 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

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