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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE reboot not preserving running applications
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:02:31
Message-Id: 4053378.x6RyX0aX27@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE reboot not preserving running applications by Andrew Udvare
1 On Wednesday, 29 August 2018 01:51:06 BST Andrew Udvare wrote:
2 > > On 2018-08-28, at 18:24, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > >
4 > > On 08/28/18 02:57, Peter Humphrey wrote:
5 > >> Hello list,
6 > >>
7 > >> After a reboot I get "Too many clients" from the remote krells, the
8 > >> local krell is absent (and if I restart it it comes up in the centre
9 > >> of the screen) and Firefox attempts to run two instances. I have to
10 > >> pkill the lot and start them again.
11 > >>
12 > >> If I stop these programs before rebooting, all is well when I restart
13 > >> them later, so I suspect the KDE/plasma setup is the guilty party.
14 > >>
15 > >> I've reinstalled the complete system on bare silicon, created new
16 > >> accounts for myself, and anything else I can think of, just to be sure
17 > >> that I have nothing untoward hanging about.
18 > >>
19 > >> Is anyone else having this problem?
20 >
21 > Was it ever perfect?
22
23 Always, up to the recent onset of misbehaviour.
24
25 > I have given up on relying on this feature especially since Chromium does
26 > not even launch after logging in again (has not happened in a long time).
27
28 I don't often use Chromium so that doesn't bother me.
29
30 > I just have keyboard shortcuts set up to get things back to how I want
31 > them (tiled in various ways, like 50% width, 25% width/height top-left/
32 > bottom-left/..., etc).
33
34 Perhaps I should look into that. Meanwhile it's reassuring that I'm not
35 going ga-ga and imagining this.
36
37 --
38 Regards,
39 Peter.