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Opened by Robert Ransom@rransom

Unset SESSION_MANAGER env var in TBB-Linux RelativeLink.sh

On startup, Vidalia often complains that it could not authenticate to the user's X session manager:

Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported

Vidalia should not be attempting to connect to a session manager, and the fact that it does could leave traces on disk outside the TBB directory.

It appears that Vidalia/Qt attempts to connect to a session manager iff the SESSION_MANAGER environment variable is set. RelativeLink.sh should unset that variable.

(Hopefully unsetting that variable will also keep Firefox from trying to talk to a session manager.)

It appears that Vidalia/Qt will be unable to connect to the session manager even if it attempts to, because the user's $HOME/.ICEauthority file is not present in the TBB directory. The GNOME 2 session manager did not log a message in $HOME/.xsession-errors when Vidalia failed to connect to it; hopefully other session managers won't log authentication errors either, but we shouldn't count on that.

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