Re: [gnome-flashback] GNOME 3.12

[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com>]

Hi Charles,

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Charles Bos <charlesbos1 gmail com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> GNOME 3.12 has hit Arch and I've tested flashback with it. These are the
> issues I've encountered so far.
>
> Old issues (Issues with 3.10)
> * no cursor unless the org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active is
> set to false
> * log off and power buttons do nothing

Does raw D-Bus call to org.gnome.SessionManager (which we are using)
work for you? Something like:

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.gnome.SessionManager
/org/gnome/SessionManager org.gnome.SessionManager.Logout

> New issues (Issues with 3.12)
> * impossible to set the background, it just stays a flat grey colour (that's
> with the background helper - provided in Arch by
> gnome-settings-daemon-compat - installed)

What does that package provide? Is that a fork of some old g-s-d
version (like one we have in Ubuntu)?

> * lock screen button in the user menu does nothing (likewise, Ctrl+Alt+l and
> Super+l do nothing even when gnome-screensaver is installed)
> * network-manager-applet isn't autostarted

This should not be an issue with nm-applet ≥ 0.9.8.8.

> * session crashes every two minutes (literally). I haven't got to the bottom
> of that one yet.

Yeah, a stack trace will be helpful.

> I currently maintain the gnome-panel package in the AUR. If there's an Arch
> user around who has some fixes and wants me to disown I'm perfectly happy to
> do so.

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Dmitry Shachnev