Bug#645383: Opened a window showing $HOME at session start

[Josh Triplett]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:55:23PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 15 octobre 2011 à 11:25 -0700, Josh Triplett a écrit :
> > > You probably have a nautilus instance in your saved session.
> >
> > Sure enough, I just checked the "Startup Applications" preferences, and
> > I have an entry named "Files", with no description, which runs the
> > command "nautilus -n".
> >
> > Note, though, that I didn't get a window popping up at the start of my
> > session until after I upgraded.  What changed?  How did nautilus end up
> > in my session, or did my session always contain nautilus and it only
> > started opening a window after I upgraded?  Either way, it seems likely
> > that this could happen to other users, who shouldn't have to dig around
> > in their preferences to fix it.
>
> If you want the whole explanation, nautilus used to be started to draw
> icons on the desktop and it is not anymore, and the options of the
> nautilus binary have changed. So it used to be in a session you saved,
> and now when the session starts it, it starts in a different way.
>
> We should probably use a different place for saved sessions now, but…
> upstream decision.

To further complicate matters: I disabled show_desktop, so nautilus
didn't draw my desktop before, either.

Any way to handle this issue automatically, and fix the user's session
somehow?  Problems with saved sessions seem to happen rather often when
upgrading to new versions of GNOME.  I don't mind hitting such issues as
a user of unstable, but I'd like to help prevent users of testing and
stable from having to deal with them.

As for how I should fix this issue myself, should I just delete nautilus
from my session, or change the entry somehow, or wait for some automatic
migration to fix the problem so I can help test it?

- Josh Triplett