David,<br> I have 60 machines in the field and the problem is consistent. There is usually a second Pidgin started but on occasion a third. They're all running CentOS5.1 and XFCE 4.4. I had to write a routine in the configuration script for the boxes that deletes the cache in .cache and turns off saving cache on exit. This was the only solution that worked all the time. I have a personal machine with Ubuntu and XFCE 4.4 and don't have the problem but then again I reboot it once every year or so! The machines in the field get rebooted several times daily depending on how much they get moved. <br>
<br>Once I solved the problem I didn't look into it further but what it seemed like was happening was when the session closed it would record a pidgin instance but pidgin was being autostarted so it would get started in both places. If the user didn't kill one of them and just logged out then the next time he'd have three instances running. The usual advice I get from XFCEers is to log in and run the apps that I want and then log out and save the session. That's a bit messy on 60 computers (soon to be 100). Everything has to be scripted and just getting rid of the session control worked.<br>
<br>Grant<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:04 AM, David Mohr <<a href="mailto:damailings@mcbf.net">damailings@mcbf.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Grant McWilliams<br>
<<a href="mailto:grantmasterflash@gmail.com">grantmasterflash@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> >> > I installed google gadgets for linux 2 days ago and<br>
>> >> > made autostart for it because it had not had this feature.<br>
>> >> > The option of "save the session" in the exit windows<br>
>> >> > is always checked. So after I start my computer again,<br>
>> >> > there are 2 google gadgets - one is from session saver,<br>
>> >> > and one is from the autostart.<br>
>> >> ><br>
>><br>
>> >><br>
>> > Yes, that is ok. But I think there should be a feature for Xfce4 session<br>
>> > saver: don't save autostart app's session.<br>
>> ><br>
>><br>
>> Hmm. Not sure that's actually possible. Might be.<br>
>><br>
> You could possibly make a script that deletes the entry in .cache for that<br>
> particular application and then set it up to autostart before the google<br>
> application. I guess you can set autostart order. If not you could put it<br>
> in one of your X startup scripts.<br>
><br>
> I've had to much with the session settings in .cache because Pidgin likes to<br>
> start multiple copies if the cache isn't wiped out. I turned off "Save<br>
> session" and "Prompt on Logout" and deleted all files in .cache in order to<br>
> get Pidgin to stop starting multiple copies. It seems that the session<br>
> system in XFCE could be rethought. I just turn it off anymore.<br>
<br>
</div></div>I'm using pidgin with xfce, and see none of these problems. My session<br>
gets always saved, and that's the way I have pidgin started. I have<br>
never seen multiple copies of pidgin get started that way. Maybe there<br>
is another reason why you ended up with multiple entries for pidgin in<br>
your session?<br>
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