192263 - Problems with KDE restore of mozilla session

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 93789

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Orion Poplawski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Running RH 8.0 with KDE 3.0.3.  If I select "Save session for future login" with
mozilla running, I get odd behavior because KDE will restore the command
"mozilla-bin" rather than "mozilla".  With 1.0.2, I get a browser okay, but the
mail reader has no account settings.  With 1.3a, mozilla fails to start.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in to KDE and start mozilla
2. Logout and check Save session
3. Log back in.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla fails to start.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should start properly and be able to read email.

I'm not sure if this is really a mozilla or KDE issue, but I suspect that
mozilla is going to have to give the KDE some information about who to restart it.

This can be fixed by editing the appropriate .kde/share/config/session/kwin*
file and changing mozilla-bin to mozilla.

Comment 1

[timeless]

reporter: if you want this fixed anytime soon, you'll have to do the research.
find out what variables/flags/settings/functions need to be poked to get the
desired result.

Comment 2

[Orion Poplawski]

I'm willing to look, but I'm starting off with zero knowledge of mozilla source,
so I don't know what it is trying to implement already.  The following is from
the KDE site on session management.  Does mozilla attempt to support/use XSMP
and/or the legacy X session management?  I would love it if mozilla could do
XSMP and save the state of the mail/news window and restart it on login.
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 KDE, since version 2.0, supports and uses the standard X11R6 session management
protocol XSMP. The official documentation of the standard can be download from
the X Consortium's FTP server ftp.x.org.

KDE also supports the legacy X11R4 and ICCCM session management protocols.
Legacy applications that define the WM_COMMAND property or support the
WM_SAVE_YOURSELF protocol will be restarted with the specified command. The
window geometries will be restored on a best effort basis.
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Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

according to bug 32222, it works if the path to the mozilla binary is in your $PATH

Comment 4

[Orion Poplawski]

This is not like bug 32222.  mozilla is in my path.

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

sorry - i had a typo there: bug 132222

Comment 6

[Orion Poplawski]

The problem is NOT that mozilla is not in my path - it is.  THe problem is that
KDE restarts mozilla-bin and not mozilla, which is needed to set certain
environment variables (I'm assuming).

Comment 7

[Kenneth Herron]

This is probably due to the GTK initialization issue described in bug 196238.
Dang, why didn't I search before opening that bug?

Comment 8

[timeless]

*** Bug 208471 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 93789 ***