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How do I stop Mageia (XFCE) from backing up my session?

PostPosted: Jul 3rd, '13, 00:54
by pelpix
Every time I log in, it restores all my running programs. As someone who uses restarting to close programs en masse on a regular basis, thinks kind of throws a wrench in things! :lol:

How do I stop it from doing this?

Re: How do I stop Mageia (XFCE) from backing up my session?

PostPosted: Jul 3rd, '13, 15:06
by djennings
Menu>Settings>SessionandStartUp>General

Re: How do I stop Mageia (XFCE) from backing up my session?

PostPosted: Jul 3rd, '13, 17:00
by pelpix
Did that. Didn't work. I thought Mageia may have had a different way of doing it, but it must just be a Cauldron bug.

Re: How do I stop Mageia (XFCE) from backing up my session?

PostPosted: Jul 3rd, '13, 19:40
by wally
pelpix wrote:Did that. Didn't work. I thought Mageia may have had a different way of doing it, but it must just be a Cauldron bug.

We are not the only ones seeing this. See report in upstream bugzilla: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10141

Re: How do I stop Mageia (XFCE) from backing up my session?

PostPosted: Jul 7th, '13, 06:35
by nigelc
Hi,
My xfce4 that comes with mageia 3 does that too.
Close all windows before executing.
Sounds like microsoft windows.:)
Or use another desktop.

Re: How do I stop Mageia (XFCE) from backing up my session?

PostPosted: Jul 7th, '13, 08:06
by wally
nigelc wrote:Hi,
My xfce4 that comes with mageia 3 does that too.
Close all windows before executing.

Try to remove old sessions by removing ~/.cache/sessions/