Re: Save Yourself

[Jason W Elliot <jelliot math cudenver edu>]

Thanks for the reply. Where is the SESSION_MANAGER variable set and could
I just edit that file?

Thanks.

On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Brian Ashe wrote:

> Hi Jason,
>
> On Saturday, September 01, 2001, 3:18:55 PM, you babbled something about:
>
> JWE> What is the "Save Yourself" command? I keep getting "no response to the
> JWE> Save Yourself command. The program may be slow, stopped, or broken. You
> JWE> may wait for it to respond or remove it." every time I start X and
> JWE> sometimes when I log out. I always choose "remove" since the other button
> JWE> just made the message come back (now it goes away until next login or log
> JWE> out). I'm using 7.1. I guess this isn't a big problem but it's a little
> JWE> annoying.
>
> It's the gnome-session manager. The error response is likely due to
> something not being "gnome aware".
>
> You have two options...
>
> 1. You can try a command line argument similar to --sm-disable which likely
> wont help, but sometimes it will. It tells the program to disable the
> session manager.
>
> or
>
> 2. You could make it start with a script which unsets SESSION_MANAGER from
> the environment.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Have fun,
>

-- 
Jason W. Elliot
Dept. of Mathematics, University of CO at Denver
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jelliot
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