Xubuntu 13.10 – Permanently Disable Save Session Feature

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I'm running Xubuntu 13.10 with xfce4-panel 4.10.1 and my sessions keeps getting saved involuntarily. I'm well aware that this is a bug so I'd like to ask if anyone knows a workaround to permanently disable/delete this feature (by removing/editing some files maybe)?

I've spent hours searching and tried a lot of the methods already but none of them worked, or at least were not permanent. Some of the stuff I've tried:

How can I turn off Xfce session saving system-wide?

(This basically just removed the tick-box in the logout prompt)

Xubuntu reopens last session applications even though it shouldn't

(Deleting the cached sessions was not a permanent solution)

I would greatly appreciate your help!

My temorarily solution:
I created a simple bash script and placed an
application launcher (which runs the script when pressed) on my task
panel. The script will delete the "~/.cache/sessions" directory and
promt log out.

The script can be found here: http://pastebin.com/aqx483pn

Basically this will be the button which you use to logout/reboot/shutdown.

Update: This only occurs if you added "restart" to the listing, in your "Action Button" (the button with your username written on). If you restart using log out -> restart it should reboot normally and not save your session. Thus, the temporarily solution above is not necessary, I will leave it there as a reference.

Best Answer

The solution is two-step.

  1. Disable Automatically save sessions on logout in Settings > Sessions > General > Logout Settings. Also make sure that you disable Save session for future logins in the Logout prompt (the window that pops when you actually try to logout).

    See:

  2. You need to log out, delete the contents of ~/.cache/sessions, then log into a clean session. (You can also delete your current session via Settings > Sessions > Session > Clear Saved Sessions.)

    See:

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