Closed
Bug 93789
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
Mozilla should support X11 session management
Categories
(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
FIXED
Firefox 3 alpha7
People
(Reporter: roland.mainz, Assigned: mwu)
References
(Blocks 3 open bugs)
Details
Attachments
(1 file, 3 obsolete files)
8.06 KB,
patch
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Details | Diff | Splinter Review |
RFE: Mozilla should support X11 session management (see xsm(1)). This means it should be possible to create snapshots of current mozilla windows (browser, mailnews, editor(!!), etc.), shutdown the Zilla and restart it using those session data later. Note that that multiple session "snapshots" are allowed per user...
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Updated•23 years ago
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Component: Bookmarks → Browser-General
Comment 1•23 years ago
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Comment 2•23 years ago
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blizzard: Wanna take a look at this one, please ?
Comment 3•22 years ago
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This appears to depend on bug 36810, which also blocks some other bugs.
Depends on: 36810
Comment 4•21 years ago
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Actually, it might not.
No longer depends on: 36810
Summary: RFE: Mozilla should support X11 session management → Mozilla should support X11 session management
Comment 5•21 years ago
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This looks like a few other bugs -- e.g., bugs 192263 and 180319
Comment 6•21 years ago
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*** Bug 192263 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7•21 years ago
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*** Bug 231047 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8•21 years ago
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Andrew, how does this bug block bug 19454 (crash recovery)? I'm not saying it doesn't, I just don't understand why it would.
Comment 9•21 years ago
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*** Bug 180319 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10•21 years ago
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My imperfect understanding of X11 session management is that it functions kind of like how the enhancement will function as requested by bug 63094, which also blocks bug 19454. Although as per bug 19454 comment 71 it is the case that bug 19454 only covers enhancements that will store new data in the profile directory, even if this enhancement request does not result in that, the functionality is so similar that I feel it should be tracked with the others. If I am wrong, please tell me.
Updated•20 years ago
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Assignee: nobody → blizzard
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Comment 11•20 years ago
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*** Bug 253254 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12•20 years ago
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Just for reference on this bug, since bug #253254 was marked as a duplicate of this bug: KDE "Save session" for a session in which firefox is running will not result in firefox restarting when one logs in. The same applies when the KDE Session Manager is configured to "Restore previous session" / so-called session auto-save mode. In either case firefox does not restart after a subsequent login. If one configures the firefox launch icon to "Run in terminal" (a gross configuration that requires a launch of an empty terminal window in addition to the firefox window), KDE "Save Session" (and auto-save) will restart a single firefox session after login (with that gross extra empty terminal session), however it will NOT start a 2nd firefox window and the single firefox browser will not restore the previous URL and tab state. One can launch multiple firefox windows under KDE. One cannot save their state (URL and tab state) and recreate the KDE session in a subsequent login. KDE is able to save and restart multiple KDE konqueror browser windows with their current URLs and tab state saved. One cannot do this for firefox. I am using RHEL 3 with an up2date patched system and the current firefox browser version. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Firefox fails to restart a single browser from a manually saved session without a terminal window: 1.launch firefox from a KDE launch icon without "run in terminal" set 2.perform a "Save Session" when the KDE Component: Session Manager is in "Restore manually saved session" 3.logout 4.login Firefox fails to restart multiple browsers from a manually saved session without a terminal window: 1.launch 2 or more firefox browsers from a KDE launch icon without "run in terminal" set 2.perform a "Save Session" when the KDE Component: Session Manager is in "Restore manually saved session" 3.logout 4.login Firefox fails to restore a single browser from a manually saved session with a terminal window: 1.launch firefox from a KDE launch icon WITH "run in terminal" set 2.perform a "Save Session" when the KDE Component: Session Manager is in "Restore manually saved session" 3.logout 4.login Firefox fails to restart multiple browsers from a manually saved session with a terminal window: 1.launch 2 or more firefox browsers from a KDE launch icon WITH "run in terminal" set 2.perform a "Save Session" when the KDE Component: Session Manager is in "Restore manually saved session" 3.logout 4.login NOTE: Selecting the KDE Compenet Session Manager mode of "Restore previous session" (auto session save) does not change the firefox restart problem. Actual Results: Firefox fails to restart a single browser from a manually saved session without a terminal window: no firefox windows are started Firefox fails to restart multiple browsers from a manually saved session without a terminal window: no firefox windows are started Firefox fails to restore a single browser from a manually saved session with a terminal window: An empty window is started, however firefox does not restart with the previous URLs and tab state. Firefox fails to restart multiple browsers from a manually saved session with a terminal window: An empty window is started, however firefox does not restart with the previous URLs and tab state. No other firefox browsers are restated. Expected Results: In all cases all of the firefox browsers should restart in their exact window position in their exact virtual desktops with their saved URL and tab state restored.
Comment 13•20 years ago
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I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who has this complaint. I thought I was doing something wrong, but it appears that Mozilla doesn't support X11 session management. Considering how much better Mozilla than most applications in so many OTHER areas, it's actually somewhat surprising to me that it doesn't support session management. Various obscure applications like nedit and trebuchet support session management too. I hope Mozilla developers will improve Mozilla's compatibility with X11 by supporting session management.
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Comment 14•20 years ago
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I would be really glad to have this feature, too. Currently this is the only reason keeping me from switching from Konqueror to FireFox. It is just very very convenient to log into KDE and having all browser windows and tabs in the state I left them. I usually have a lot of tabs open, distributed on various windows, containing the pages I visit on a regular basis. Session management enables me to simply log out and log in later and still have everything open. FireFox currently cannot do this, so I don't use it, even though it is so much better than Konqueror in most other respects. Please consider implementing this feature.
Comment 15•20 years ago
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*** Bug 272104 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16•20 years ago
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I searched all firefox extensions looking for this functionality until I reach this bug,I missed this feature because I get used to it with Galeon, where the sites I had no time to read before power the computer off got opened the next time I power the computer on. So I vote for this ;-). It seems that Galeon, which is mozilla-based, implemented this feature in some way.
Comment 17•19 years ago
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I am no longer interested in this bug since I ve found a firefox extension that does pretty well what I wanted, that is opening the browser with the same tabs that where opened when the browser was closed,, the extension is called SessionSaver and you can install it from: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=436 Thought this could be useful to the people CCed.
Comment 18•19 years ago
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GNOME has proxy program which provides some semblance of session management support for apps which don't support XSMP, but do set various ICCCM properties like WM_NAME, WM_CLASS, WM_CLIENT_LEADER, WM_COMMAND and WM_CLIENT_MACHINE. However, since this session management convention was deprecated over a decade ago, we're dropping smproxy. See this thread for more details: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-July/thread.html#00527 Interestingly, though, if you save a GNOME session with Firefox running, the command saved is "firefox-bin" (because this is what's in the WM_COMMAND property) and so, when restoring the session firefox isn't restored because running firefox-bin obviously fails. So, GNOME dropping smproxy doesn't have any net effect on Mozilla's session management support, really. The only thing that can help is implementing even very simple XSMP support.
Comment 19•19 years ago
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(In reply to comment #18) > Interestingly, though, if you save a GNOME session with Firefox running, the > command saved is "firefox-bin" (because this is what's in the WM_COMMAND > property) and so, when restoring the session firefox isn't restored because > running firefox-bin obviously fails. I'm referring here to what happens if you try and save Firefox into the session using gnome-smproxy.
Updated•19 years ago
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Assignee: blizzard → jag
Component: General → XP Apps
QA Contact: claudius
Target Milestone: Future → ---
Comment 20•19 years ago
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This is a patch which adds gnome-session support to Mozilla. It really doesn't do anything beyond fixing up the command-line and calling the gnome session initialization stuff. What this gets you, though, is that mozilla will pop up on the workspace that it was on when you saved the session. For everything else, there is SessionSaver.
Comment 21•19 years ago
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I thought that I should add a little more detail about my patch. By using the gnome session API we do get XSMP support. So I assume this will work on KDE or with any other X sessions stuff if mozilla is compiled on a system with libgnomeui. Whether UNIX distributions commonly do that or not, I don't know. The other thing is that I didn't implement any of the callbacks (like save_yourself). The main reason is that I use the SaveSession extension and that handles all of that stuff already. Though, it may make sense to implement the destroy callback because I've noticed that sometimes if I logout of X, mozilla dies in such a way that it doesn't save any preferences I've changed. That might be a bug or some other problem. I've not looked into it. Also, the patch is agaisnt the 1.8 branch.
Comment 22•18 years ago
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Peter: you should ask review on the patch (an updated version, preferably), that makes chances of getting it in the tree a bit higher ;) Also, according to this page <http://wiki.mozilla.org/Session_Restore> session restoring is likely to be implemented for Fx2.
Comment 23•18 years ago
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Any progress on this since Session Saver is now in FF2? Seems like this should be a lot easier to implement now.
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Comment 24•17 years ago
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Moving to Firefox->OS Integration. (not actually firefox specific, but there's no toolkit->OS Integration so this will have to do..)
Assignee: jag → nobody
Component: XP Apps → OS Integration
Product: Mozilla Application Suite → Firefox
QA Contact: os.integration
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Updated•17 years ago
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Assignee: nobody → michael.wu
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Comment 25•17 years ago
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This patch hooks toolkit up to libgnomeui and handles the save_yourself and die signals. Unfortunately, the die signal doesn't seem to get called on my system.. need to figure out why..
Attachment #204265 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
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Updated•17 years ago
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Keywords: helpwanted
Comment 26•17 years ago
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Don't know if this is important, but libgnome and libgnomeui are in the process of being deprecated[1], all the functionality they provide is being implemented in gtk+, you can see what is already implemented in GTK+ in [1]. As for session management, it's not yet in GTK+ but there's already work done, see "SM Client" section on http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement [1] http://live.gnome.org/LibgnomeMustDie
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Comment 27•17 years ago
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Attachment #268042 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
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Updated•17 years ago
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Attachment #268396 -
Flags: review?(benjamin)
Comment 28•17 years ago
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Comment on attachment 268396 [details] [diff] [review] Add support for xsmp, v2 Before I review this I'm going to want docs about how app shutdown is supposed to work (you don't have to implement it all, just document where you're headed). Please re-request review when that's available.
Attachment #268396 -
Flags: review?(benjamin)
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Comment 29•17 years ago
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Comment on attachment 268396 [details] [diff] [review] Add support for xsmp, v2 http://wiki.mozilla.org/App_quit_sequence
Attachment #268396 -
Flags: review?(benjamin)
Updated•17 years ago
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Attachment #268396 -
Flags: review?(benjamin) → review+
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Comment 30•17 years ago
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Attachment #268396 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
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Comment 31•17 years ago
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Checking in toolkit/xre/Makefile.in; /cvsroot/mozilla/toolkit/xre/Makefile.in,v <-- Makefile.in new revision: 1.82; previous revision: 1.81 done RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/toolkit/xre/nsNativeAppSupportUnix.cpp,v done Checking in toolkit/xre/nsNativeAppSupportUnix.cpp; /cvsroot/mozilla/toolkit/xre/nsNativeAppSupportUnix.cpp,v <-- nsNativeAppSupportUnix.cpp initial revision: 1.1 done
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → Firefox 3 M7
This code is unconditionally calling gnome_program_init, even when there already exists a GnomeProgram instance: + char *argv[2] = { "gecko", "--disable-crash-dialog" }; + gnome_program_init("Gecko", "1.0", libgnomeui_module_info_get(), 2, argv, NULL); The one other caller of gnome_program_init in gecko [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/uriloader/exthandler/unix/nsGNOMERegistry.cpp#177] checks first for an existing GnomeProgram; I think this code should do so, too. (See bug 221012.)
Comment 33•17 years ago
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I'm getting a few messages like this on Debian with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007071704 Minefield/3.0a7pre, running as a different user than Xorg is running as, and using “xhost +local:”: (Gecko:10687): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. It doesn't appear when running as the Xorg's user.
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Comment 34•17 years ago
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(In reply to comment #32) > The one other caller of gnome_program_init in gecko > [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/uriloader/exthandler/unix/nsGNOMERegistry.cpp#177] > checks first for an existing GnomeProgram; I think this code should do so, too. > (See bug 221012.) > Do embedders use nsAppRunner?
(In reply to comment #34) > Do embedders use nsAppRunner? I don't know (Epiphany doesn't); but this is called from XRE_main and it's certainly possible that someone could init GnomeProgram before calling XRE_main.
Comment 36•17 years ago
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Christian and Aleksej, I think it's going to be best to file follow-up bugs for those issues, rather than trying to track them here.
Comment 38•17 years ago
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(In reply to comment #33) Filed bug 388515.
Comment 39•16 years ago
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any idea why the quit confirmation dialog is not shown on shutdown (bug 449548)?
See Also: → https://launchpad.net/bugs/106314
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