On 26 January 2012 01:07, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn(a)sourpuss.net> wrote:
I've been running trinity since the ubuntu team
tried to shove kde4 onto us.
Through the various versions, and including most recently with a clean
install off the trinity maverick cd, I have had the problem that when I log
out of my desktop, kde does not save what programs I had open at the time
(which should be restored when I log back in). The only solution I have
found to this issue is to link to kwin in ~/.kde3/Autostart/ (now with
3.5.13 its in ~/.trinity/Autostart/). Also of note is that kwin is NOT
found in 'ps' unless I do this.
Now it is my understanding that if kwin is not running, I should be seeing a
lack of desktop affects - noticeable things like window borders and such -
however when my desktop starts up there are no apparent visual problems.
Yet unless I start kwin in Autostart, when I log out of my desktop and back
in again, I am always returned to a desktop with konsole and firefox opening
up, but nothing else. Once kwin is added to Autostart, my desktop always
opens up to whatever programs I had running when I logged out (including
correct window and multi-desktop placement).
My wife's system: maverick trinity with the standard updates applied.
My system: maverick trinity installed, do-release-upgrade to natty, then
pulled the apt sources to upgrade to trinity 3.5.13. Through none of these
steps did kwin save my desktop on logout.
What I would like to know is if there was an issue at some point along this
path that kwin did not get added to the normal kde startup process, and if
there is a more appropriate way that I should get it to run when a user logs
in?
Me thinks that something weird is happening with your sessions. Try
getting everything setup (with kwin running) how it normally should,
then save your session. See if that is a solution.