Re: [Evolution] Evolution external editor

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 17:09 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > FWIW current message from Evolution, seems to be just the one I usually
> > get:
> > "(evolution:1272): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client:
> > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> > org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files"
>
> I suspect that this is the problem though - it appears that Evo can't
> find the SessionManager, and without that things will probably not work
> properly.  I seem to remember you said that you used Xfce and not Gnome?
> Is it possible for you to run Gnome as an experiment to make sure that
> Evo works properly under that?  If not, then check the Xfce preferences
> to see if there is anywhere to enable a Gnome compatible SessionManager.

That's just *ahem* desktop-neutral GTK3 hard-coding an X session manager
bus name for a one specific desktop.  Just about every desktop has its
own X session manager, but they're not all controlled through D-Bus. 

It's a nuisance warning on non-GNOME desktops, but harmless.

Matthew Barnes