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From: Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Save Session dialog gone
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:40:55
Message-Id: 1158492523.29766.3.camel@malory
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Save Session dialog gone by Iain Buchanan
1 On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 14:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 11:29 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote:
3 > > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 08:49 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
4 > > > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 18:01 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote:
5 > > > > Hi,
6 > > > >
7 > > > > When I logout of gnome it no longer asks me if I wish to save the
8 > > > > session and as a result I lose all my session data each time I logout.
9 > > > >
10 > > > > Anyone know where this went? Is this an upstream Gnome issue or am I
11 > > > > missing some magical USE flag?
12 > > >
13 > > > Desktop Menu > Preferences > Sessions:
14 > > > "Automatically save changes to session" should save changes even without
15 > > > the dialog, or
16 > > > "Ask on logout" should bring back your dialog.
17 > >
18 > > Ahhh - I should of mentioned I have been to this dialog. However what
19 > > ever I set it to it seems to make no difference to if I'm prompted or
20 > > not.
21 >
22 > hmmm, what version of gnome are you using? gnome-light or gnome?
23 >
24 > This sounds like gnome 2.10/2.12 (can't remember) behaviour...
25
26 The About Dialog reckons it's 2.14.2
27
28 > Also, when you say "it no longer asks", when did it ask? what have you
29 > done in the mean time?
30
31 It used to until after one emerge update it stopped asking. I think it
32 broke a couple of months ago.
33
34 I'm running on amd64 so I don't think the latest gnome has been unmasked
35 yet.
36
37 > --
38 > Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
39 >
40 > Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux
41 > -- unknown source
42 >
43 --
44 Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/
45 can I write a unix-like kernel in perl?
46
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Save Session dialog gone Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>