I've got the settings as follows: Panel / Settings Manager / Session and Startup / General / Logout Settings / "Automatically save session on logout" - UNCHECKED And when I go: Panel / My login / Log Out ... / Restart with the checkbox "Save session for future logins" - UNCHECKED After reboot and logon to the system I can see the apps I had run before restart running again. What am I missing? Regards, hawran === System Info === Xubuntu: $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty $ uname -a Linux ... 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
First: I am shocked that this bug is totaly uncommented/untriaged for more then two years. It is not about fixing - just triage! I can reproduce that behaviour, too. Using Debian unstable (64bit) with xfce4 package version 4.12.3. I deleted ~/.cache/sessions to be sure. The checkbox the opener here reported is unchecked in my environment, too. But after each logout the ~/.cache/sessions is recreated.
You could check if ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml contains: <property name="SaveOnExit" type="bool" value="false"/>
The iine is <property name="SaveOnExit" type="empty"/>. Version information (Debian unstable) xfce4: Installiert: 4.12.3 Installationskandidat: 4.12.3 Versionstabelle: *** 4.12.3 500 500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages 500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status xfce4-session: Installiert: 4.12.1-5 Installationskandidat: 4.12.1-5 Versionstabelle: *** 4.12.1-5 500 500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
You could also try deleting that file and logging out (at that point it will be regenerated) and see if the line is regenerated the same way (ie without type="bool" and value attribute)
I am no dev, just a user. But it sounds a lot like permission issues. Do all files in your home directory belong to you? trying wiping xfce4 config files helps?(because config file will be recreated with correct permissions, assuming folder where its supposed to be allows it to be created)
*** Bug 13727 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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