RHEA-2011:1654 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated gnome-session packages that fix a bug and add an enhancement are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The gnome-session package manages the GNOME desktop session. It starts up the
other core components of GNOME and handles logout and saving of the session.

These updated gnome-session packages fix the following bug:

• Prior to this update, the gnome-session utility may have improperly saved

desktop sessions. As a consequence, when logging in, the running applications
were incorrectly collapsed from multiple workspaces into the first workspace and
their initial position was not restored. This has been fixed: applications are
now restored in their original workspaces and correctly positionally placed.
(BZ#664516)

In addition, these updated gnome-session packages provide the following
enhancement:

• Prior to this update, users were not able to manage multiple custom GNOME

sessions while being logged in. Now, multiple sessions can be managed under the
Options tab of System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications. (BZ#622849)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated gnome-session packages, which
resolve this bug and add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat
Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 664516 - gnome-session and metacity do not restore windows position or workspace

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)