The session manager for LXDE was in long development and it still is. Julien did a lot for it to make it better. It is far from perfection yet but it is usable again and we hope it is a bit better than it was before. Two releases in row – 0.5.0, then fast bugfix next one – 0.5.1.
New release tarball download link:
lxsession-0.5.1.tar.xz – SHA1: 3419802c9e7269093900dd5fd4948acb95dec253

The most noticeable changes since previous stable release 0.4.6.1 (see git log for details):

• Translations updates.
• Added support for reboot and shutdown in LTST client.
• Added support for user switch.
• Added clipboard support, based on Xfce one.
• Added options to launch default applications.
• Rewritten whole lxsession in Vala.
• Implemented a connection to session bus.
• Added ability to change settings by Dbus call, example by keymap configuration.
• Added signal / Dbus for changing window manager.
• Added Dbus method for restarting Xsettings.
• Added Dbus methods for xrandr options.
• Added more details in the desktop.conf example.
• Added GTK, Mouse and Keyboard to the list of settings + Dbus methods to change them.
• Added lxclipboard standalone, and an option to launch it instead of built-in the support.
• Implemented network GUI default application (nm-applet, wicd, etc.).
• Moved in lxpolkit from standalone package.
• Moved in lxsession-edit from standalone package.
• Implemented audio-manager handler support.
• Implemented quit manager support and expose it in Dbus.
• Implemented workspace manager option and expose it in Dbus.
• Implemented launcher manager support and expose it on Dbus.
• Implemented terminal by default support and expose on Dbus.
• Implemented minimal support for inhibition of the screensaver.
• Implemented option to disable autostarted applications on home and system directory.
• Implemented new way of launching windows manager.
• Implemented composite manager handler.
• Rebased lxlock on xflock, and extend it with lightdm and xdg-screensaver.
• Added i3lock support in lxlock.
• Added systemd-logind support.
• Added more options for the disable_autostart option.
• Added an option for screenshot to take only the current window.
• Made lxsession-logout working when lxsession is not running.
• Added lxsession-default utility.
• Added PackageManagerRunning signal and ProxyOption initial commit.
• Increased timeout for lxsession-logout, to make authentification possible.
• Removed conditionnal support for Dbus, it’s now mandatory.
• Added razorqt polkit agent support.
• Added the version to the session name in lxsession-logout.
• Implemented AudioManagerSet.
• Implemented others Get() Set() functions for *_manager.
• Implemented close() and reload() for all Apps.
• Implemented panel control mechanism.
• Implemented a more complex quit_manager.
• Implemented ability to set some custom XDG environment variables.
• Added an ssh-agent option instead of gnome-keyring.
• Added lxterminal conffiles, and enabled the one for xscreensaver.
• Added “support” for libfm in conffiles.
• Implemented Desktop handler.
• Implemented upstart user session option.
• Implemented lxsession-default-apps, the GUI for configuring lxsession.
• Implemented  lxsession-db, to build database of available applications by categories.
• Made it possible to set working directory when launching app, and set it for the terminal.
• Added a lxsettings-daemon binary independant from lxsession core.
• Implemented SessionSupport and SessionSupportDetail Dbus interface.
• Removed gee dependencies, use HashTable.
• Fixed lxsession-logout when lsb_release is not available.
• New –disable-gtk flag, which doesn’t build any gtk component at build time.
• Added support for ubuntu appmenu environment variable.
• Added light-locker in lxlock.
• Added support for only reload 5 times applications which are reloaded.
• Added missing man pages for some binaries.