what is keeping per-user state outside of user's $HOME ?

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 14:59 -0400, John Ellson wrote:
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >
> > Why don't we stop all this blind guessing, and attach a debugger to the
> > panel instead ? It would be so much easier...
> >
> >   
> Because I'm not a gdb expert, and I don't know what to look for in 
> gnome-panel, or even why you think gnome-panel is the place to look?
> 
> If you wouldn't mind helping out with some more detailed suggestions, 
> perhaps offline from this list, then I'm willing to try.
> 

You probably want to break in panel_lock_screen_action_available and see
what is going on there.