Bug 208680

Created attachment 99815 [details]
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It looks like gnome-session is no longer looking at /opt/gnome/share/autostart.

Rodrigo, please check why after the screensaver bug.

Yeah, the autostart patch has been disabled in autobuild, because of conflicts, so dealing with merging it now.

The autostart spec currently says that autostart files are launched from $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/autostart, so beagle.desktop should be getting installed into /etc/opt/gnome/xdg/autostart/, not /opt/gnome/share/autostart/. Unless we're going to try to change the spec to say $XDG_DATA_DIRS instead, which has been discussed... (presumably the other distros shipped gnome-session 2.14 and 2.16 as-is though, so we're the odd man out here).

Lets support both options for upgrade purposes

Supporting /opt/gnome/share/autostart (or rather $PREFIX/share/autostart) will, when we move to /usr, clash with the KDE's old autostart dir, which will add lots of problems (starting KDE services in GNOME mainly).

So I guess it is much better to move beagle to the new place. If no one disagrees, I'll go ahead and change beagle

A decision/action is really needed here because gnome-power-manager isn't autostarted either right now.

Maybe someone should check the entire distribution for packages that install something into /opt/gnome/share/autostart.

The following files (packages) are currently affected:

/opt/gnome/share/autostart/application-browser.desktop (gnome-main-menu.rpm)
/opt/gnome/share/autostart/beagled.desktop (beagle.rpm)
/opt/gnome/share/autostart/gnome-power-manager.desktop (gnome-power-manager.rpm)

Yeah, I see those 3 also. So, if no one disagrees, I'll change them all to install things correctly, ok?

(In reply to comment #6)
> Supporting /opt/gnome/share/autostart (or rather $PREFIX/share/autostart)
> will, when we move to /usr, clash with the KDE's old autostart dir, which
> will add lots of problems (starting KDE services in GNOME mainly).

I checked on a machine with a basic KDE 10.2 install, and all of the KDE autostart files have been modified to include "OnlyShowIn: KDE". There might be other more obscure KDE packages that haven't been fixed though.

(In reply to comment #7)
> Maybe someone should check the entire distribution for packages that
> install something into /opt/gnome/share/autostart.

/opt/gnome/share/autostart: beagled, gnome-main-menu, gnome-power-manager, novell-iprint-xclient (also in /opt/kde3)

/opt/gnome/share/gnome/autostart: gnome-volume-manager, resapplet, nm-applet

/opt/kde3/share/autostart: opensuse-updater, kdepim3, rsibreak, kdebase3-SuSE, kamix, kerry, kscpm, kdebluetooth, kdemultimedia, NetworkManager-kde, kinternet, novell-xprint-xclient (also in /opt/gnome), kpowersave, OpenOffice_org-Quickstarter

/etc/xdg/autostart: bluez-gnome, zen-updater

Still in beta 1

*** Bug 215611 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Rodrigo, Joe what is the status here?

Working on it, about to submit the packages once I check everything is ok.

beagle submitted

and gnome-power-manager

Rodrigo, as the packages have been submitted & checked in, wouldn't it make sense to close this bug for now?

- One package is still missing (gnome-main-menu). For this package, the not-used autostart file does not break functionality, but prevents the application-browser from being preloaded (=> performance problem).

- Comment 5 is still open, maybe you can make a final decision whether supporting this is desirable or not (I don't know).

I'd leave it open therefore, but not as a blocker

Yes, missing 2 packages, gnome-main-menu and novell-iprint-xclient.

Now both are submitted.