Re: [gnome-flashback] Gnome FB Meta on F22 fails to start locally

[Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 gmail com>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Alberts Muktupāvels
<alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:43 AM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 gmail com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Alberts Muktupāvels
> > <alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 gmail com>
[...]
> > > > In my ~/.vnc/.xstartup script, I have these 2 lines, which may be
> > > > significant:
> > > > unset SESSION_MANAGER
> > > > unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
> > > >
> > > > Also,
> > > >
> > > > GDM is reading from the xsession file, which contains this line:
> > > > DesktopNames=GNOME-Flashback;GNOME;
> > > >
> > > > Whereas for TigerVNC, I have this line in ~/.Xclients
> > > > export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME-Flashback;GNOME;
> > >
> > >
> > > ; - is used only in .desktop files
> > > : - should be used when setting environment variable
> > >
> > > That line should be:
> > > export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME-Flashback:GNOME
> > >
> > > Just in case it is not a typo....
> >
> > 1. It looks like this is a bug. I will submit a patch.
> >
> > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-flashback/tree/data/gnome-flashback-metacity.desktop.in.in
> >
> > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-flashback/tree/data/gnome-flashback-compiz.desktop.in.in
>
>
>
> No, it is not a bug. In *.desktop files it should be ';', but in enviroment
> variable it must be ':'.
>
>
> > 2. I edited the .xsession file on my system and it did not fix the
> > issue with the local session. (I made sure to restart GDM).
> >
> > 3. It did fix compatibility with the simple project I have been
> > working on all day (xsession-chooser-pygtk), which I was using under
> > TigerVNC. My project uses the .xsession file:
> > https://github.com/mikedep333/xsession-chooser-pygtk

OK, so that is a bug in my project. I will fix its parsing code.
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html#value-types

-Mike