Bug 403188

Summary:	At login, previous session restores before some other services
Product:	[Unmaintained] ksmserver	Reporter:	sammel49
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, matija, r2b2x3+kdebug, trmdi
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.14.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mint (Ubuntu based)
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384392 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362857
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Description sammel49 2019-01-13 18:23:31 UTC

SUMMARY

If KDE is set up to restore previous session on login, then when login happens, the previous session is being restored before all other services are ready.

For example, when also using Plasma Global Application Menu (http://fasterland.net/activate-global-menu-kde-plasma-5-9.html), applications from the previous session are started before the menu service is ready. At least, Kai Uwe, developer behind recent updates of Global Application Menu, made this guess - https://blog.broulik.de/2018/03/gtk-global-menu/#comment-10163.

And there is actually a report on this already - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384392.

However, as other people mention (https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/aes1vn/delay_kde_desktop_session_restore/eds444h/) it also happens with things other than menu. So the issue might be on the side of ksmserver.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Enable restoring previous session on login
2. Add Application Menu to Window decorations
3. Open Dolphin, see the Application Menu element in its titlebar
4. Relogin

OBSERVED RESULT
Restored Dolphin (and other restored applications) does not have the Application Menu

EXPECTED RESULT
All restored applications should have Application Menus in their titlebars, just like when they are started manually.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 4.15.0-43-generic
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0
Qt Version: 5.11.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Additional discussions at
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384392
https://blog.broulik.de/2018/03/gtk-global-menu/#comment-10140
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/aes1vn/delay_kde_desktop_session_restore/

Comment 1 Matija Šuklje 2019-01-14 07:32:09 UTC

Can confirm on NixOS:

- Plasma 5.13
- Plasma Frameworks 5.49
- KDE Applications 18.08

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2019-01-14 10:18:30 UTC

As you've mentioned there's a bug report for the menu - which I understand is a problem.

You didn't mention anything else specifically in here.

Comment 3 trmdi 2019-01-14 17:06:24 UTC

(In reply to sammel49 from comment #0)
it also happens with things
> other than menu. So the issue might be on the side of ksmserver.

You mean this bug relates to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362857 ?

Comment 4 sammel49 2019-01-14 17:30:40 UTC

(In reply to trmdi from comment #3)
> (In reply to sammel49 from comment #0)
> > it also happens with things other than menu. So the issue might be on the side of ksmserver.
> 
> You mean this bug relates to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362857 ?

I can't say for sure, but by the look of it, I think it does.

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Comment 6 sammel49 2019-01-29 15:22:04 UTC

The race condition between session restore and Application Menu service initialization is fixed in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384392 (after this issue had been created).

The race condition between session restore and the "window effects service" (probably KWin) initialization is tracked in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362857. Maybe this one could be fixed with an equally tiny change as with the app menu.

As no other races with session restore are provided, the current issue is being marked as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 384392 ***