Firefox and Gaim start on Gnome login

[Dolda2000]

I think you typed that wrong - it was supposed to be a comma, not a period.

Tip: Try copy and pasting the command. =)

[dan@george]

Oh, heh; good call.

The output is:

/home/dan/.gnome2/session:0,Program=gaim
/home/dan/.gnome2/session:0,CloneCommand=gaim
/home/dan/.gnome2/session:0,RestartCommand=gaim --session 117f000001000108782184300000022590002
/home/dan/.gnome2/session:2,Program=/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin
/home/dan/.gnome2/session:2,CloneCommand=/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin -contentLocale en-US -UILocale en-US
/home/dan/.gnome2/session:2,RestartCommand=/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin -contentLocale en-US -UILocale en-US
Binary file /home/dan/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/Cache/_CACHE_003_ matches
/home/dan/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/Cache/6D8940A0d01:themeArray[T].description = "

Mostly Crystal is a theme for Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 \"mostly\" from the Crystal &#40;for    Linux&#41; icon set designed by <a href=\"http&#58;//www.everaldo.com\">Everaldo</a> and includes    icons in their original form plus custom-edited composites of the originals. A matching    theme is available for Firefox.</p>

For Thunderbird versions&#58; 0.5</p>";
/home/dan/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/Cache/6D8940A0d01&#58;themeArray&#91;T&#93;.description = "

Mostly Crystal is a theme for Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 \"mostly\" from the Crystal &#40;for    Linux&#41; icon set designed by <a href=\"http&#58;//www.everaldo.com\">Everaldo</a> and includes    icons in their original form plus custom-edited composites of the originals. A matching    theme is available for Firefox.</p>

For Thunderbird versions&#58; 0.5</p>";
Binary file /home/dan/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-Zo6LKi matches

That's more like it. Hey, I bet those lines about gnome2/session:2 are causing the problem -- do you think? But there's no mention of GAIM in those...

[Dolda2000]

Obviously, they're defined in ~/.gnome2/session. That should mean that they should be in the GNOME session settings dialog as well. Are you sure that you checked thoroughly in there (all three tabs)?

[dan@george]

I definitely don't see them there. The first tab just shows one session, called Default. The second tab appears to just be a graphical ps ax or something, and the third tab has no entries at all...

[Opnosforatou]

[martijnl@illith martijnl]$ find ~/.gnome{,2} ~/.gconf -type f -exec egrep -Hi 'firefox|gaim' {} \;
/home/martijnl/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/frobate-0025cda8de.desktop:Comment=Multi-protocol Instant Messaging Client (Gaim)
/home/martijnl/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/frobate-0025cda8de.desktop:Comment[it]=Client Multi-Protocollo per Messaggi Immediati (Gaim)
/home/martijnl/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/frobate-0025cda8de.desktop:Comment[es]=Cliente de mensajerÃ*a instantánea multiprotocolo (Gaim)
/home/martijnl/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/frobate-0025cda8de.desktop:Comment[fr]=Client de messagerie instantanée multiprotocole (Gaim)
/home/martijnl/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/frobate-0025cda8de.desktop:Comment[de]=Multi-Protokoll Instant Messenger Client (Gaim)
/home/martijnl/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/frobate-0025cda8de.desktop:Comment[ko]=ë¤ì¤ í
                                                                                               ë¡í ì½ ë©ì ì  (Gaim)
/home/martijnl/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/frobate-0025cda8de.desktop:Comment[pt_BR]=Cliente de mensagens instantâneas multi-protocolo (Gaim)
/home/martijnl/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/frobate-0025cda8de.desktop:Exec=gaim
/home/martijnl/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/frobate-0025cda8de.desktop:Icon=gaim.png
/home/martijnl/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/frobate-008f87d4e0.desktop:Exec=firefox
/home/martijnl/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/frobate-008f87d4e0.desktop:Name[en_US]=Firefox Web Browser
/home/martijnl/.gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/%gconf.xml&#58;<stringvalue>firefox %s</stringvalue>

Here is my output.
As you can see, I don't have those session and session restore line.
Delete them and try again.

use tar -cvf gnome2.bck.tar .gnome2 to create backup of you .gnome2 dir , Just to be sure

[Dolda2000]

Well, it doesn't really work that easily - the session file also stores some magic state info about the lines it contains. When you remove the entries for those programs, you also need to renumber the other lines so that they are all numbered linearily, and change the num_clients line to reflect how many entries there are. If you do all that, though, it should be fine. You shouldn't do it while you're logged into GNOME, though, since there's quite a chance that it might get saved back when you log out. Instead, log out, change to a text terminal, change the file from there, and then try to log in again.

[dan@george]

Excellent, yeah! That totally did the trick! And now I know how the Gnome sessions file works.
Thanks a lot you guys.