Bug#783776: mate-session-manager: mate-session-properties doesn't do its work.

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: mate-session-manager
Version: 1.8.2-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
I have been running mate for quite sometime now and have found that
mate-session-properties doesn't work as advertised.

>From the man-page :-

"The mate-session-properties program enables the users to configure
what applications should be started on login, in addition to the
default startup applications configured on the system.

 It also proposes an interface to save a snapshot of the currently
running applications so that they can automatically be restored to
their current state on your next MATE session."  -
mate-session-properties manpage

Now what is happening for some reason abiword keeps appearing in every
new mate-session that I start. It doesn't appear in the Startup
applications list.

The second method of closing abiword and using mate-sesion-save
--shutdown-dialog and restarting also didn't do the trick. In both
eventualities abiword does return to haunt us.

While perhaps a simple way would be to purge abiword and have a few
sessions without abiword but that seems to be bit harsh. It would be
nice and better if there is another way. If not, then perhaps report
it upstream.

Either way looking forward to a solution.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mate-session-manager depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.8.16-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.24.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.16.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-18
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.2-1
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.9.14-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.102-1
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6                                 2.5.2-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.31.3-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.44.0-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0                                  2.24.25-3
ii  libice6                                      2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.8-3
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0                            1.36.8-3
ii  libsm6                                       2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  libsystemd0                                  219-7
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxau6                                      1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxext6                                     2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxrender1                                  1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii  libxtst6                                     2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  upower                                       0.99.2-3

Versions of packages mate-session-manager recommends:
ii  caja                  1.8.2-3
ii  marco                 1.8.3+dfsg1-3
ii  mate-panel            1.8.1+dfsg1-3
ii  mate-polkit           1.8.0+dfsg1-4
ii  mate-settings-daemon  1.8.2-4

mate-session-manager suggests no packages.

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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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