Re: [gnome-flashback] gnome-sessions on Ubuntu 15.10+

[Eugene San <eugenesan gmail com>]

Actually x2go starts DE as described in .desktop file, but using hardcoded values.

I believe once the 653327 is fixed we could switch to fetching DE parameters from .desktop file.

Regarding gmenu issue we discussed earlier.

It appears there are 2 versions of gmenu in Ubuntu repos (gnome-menus and gnome-menus2).
gnome-menus seems to be ok, gnome-panel::menu using it without any issues.
gnome-menus2 is indeed broken due to multi-value XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP.

Seems like gnome-menu2 is a fork of gnome-menus (v3.0.1) and was revived to support python2/gtk2 based packages.

 

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg gmail com> wrote:

Next I ran:
nano /usr/lib/gnome-flashback/gnome-flashback-metacity

and I inserted those:
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME-Flashback:Unity
export DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome-flashback-metacity

Now x2go runs fine when I tell it to run a custom session:
/usr/lib/gnome-flashback/gnome-flashback-metacity

I wonder though, why do display managers or x2go need to define those environment variables, when they explicitly run e.g. gnome-flashback-metacity?

That script is there to workaround problem that has not been fixed till today:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=653327

In ideal world this file:

/usr/share/xsession/gnome-flashback-metacity.desktop

should have

Exec=gnome-session --session=gnome-flashback-metacity --disable-acceleration-check

not
Exec=/usr/lib/gnome-flashback/gnome-flashback-metacity

DM reads that *.desktop file and sets XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP env from DesktopNames. Don't know how x2go works, but it might need to do similar thing.

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Alberts Muktupāvels

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