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and subject line Bug#1050966: fixed in amiwm 0.22pl2-5
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regarding amiwm: please set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP and use it to configure
xdg-desktop-portal
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Package: amiwm
Version: 0.21pl2-2
Severity: normal
User: [email protected]
Usertags: portals.conf
As well as being available as a window manager to integrate into some
larger environment, amiwm behaves like a very small desktop environment
in its own right, by providing a /usr/share/xsessions/amiwm.desktop
which can be selected on entry to a display manager such as lightdm.
xdg-desktop-portal 1.17.x introduces a new way to select which portals will
be used for which desktop environments, modelled on mimeapps.list:
- each desktop environment should provide a file like
/usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/amiwm-portals.conf
- the filename is ${DESKTOP}-portals.conf where ${DESKTOP} is the desktop
environment's entry in $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP (the same as the DesktopNames
from /usr/share/{x,wayland-}sessions/*.desktop), folded to lower case
- sysadmins and users can override this via files named portals.conf or
${DESKTOP}-portals.conf in various locations like /etc/xdg-desktop-portal
and ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal
But as far as I can tell, amiwm doesn't set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP, so for
the purposes of this mechanism, it's not programmatically distinguishable
from any other desktop environment or window manager.
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is also used in pre-existing freedesktop.org standards
like the OnlyShowIn/NotShowIn fields for .desktop files, and the ability to
provide a desktop-environment-specific mimeapps.list. Setting
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP would allow amiwm to participate in those
specifications.
To reproduce
============
* Start from a basic non-GUI virtual machine (I used autopkgtest-build-qemu)
* Ensure that a user account exists
* apt install lightdm xorg amiwm
* reboot
* Log in as the user account, selecting "amiwm" from the menu of
possible X11 sessions
* Open a terminal and run:
env | grep XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
systemctl --user show-environment
(It's the systemd activation environment that matters here, more than
`env`, because xdg-desktop-portal will typically be run as a systemd
user service.)
Expected result
===============
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP should be set to a colon-separated sequence of
desktop environment names, most specific first. amiwm seems to be its
own thing rather than being based on another desktop environment, so
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=amiwm
would seem appropriate.
This would allow the amiwm session to have its own
desktop-environment-specific mimeapps.list or portals.conf(5), for
example /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/amiwm-portals.conf.
Actual result
=============
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is unset.
This means that xdg-desktop-portal configuration can only be done via a
non-desktop-specific portals.conf, but that's not really something that a
non-opinionated distribution like Debian can usefully ship in a centralized
way, so each user of amiwm who wants a working xdg-desktop-portal will
have to configure it themselves.
At the moment, this is mitigated by xdg-desktop-portal (>= 1.17) having
been patched to fall back to xdg-desktop-portal-gtk as a last-resort
desktop-environment-specific backend, but hard-coding that implementation
isn't really something we should be doing centrally (and the idea was
rejected upstream), so I intend to remove that patch before trixie
is released.
Suggested fix
=============
Add a sequence of semicolon-separated desktop environment names to
/usr/share/xsessions/amiwm.desktop, most likely just "amiwm":
DesktopNames=amiwm;
(For example, icewm and windowmaker use "ICEWM" and "WindowMaker" in
their equivalent xsessions file.)
And then create a /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/amiwm-portals.conf
with whatever portal backends are desired for an amiwm session,
for example perhaps this:
[preferred]
default=gtk;
Please see portals.conf(5) or its source code
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/main/doc/portals-conf.rst
for full details.
Thanks,
smcv
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Source: amiwm
Source-Version: 0.22pl2-5
Done: Alex Myczko <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
amiwm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Alex Myczko <[email protected]> (supplier of updated amiwm package)
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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:25:51 +0100
Source: amiwm
Architecture: source
Version: 0.22pl2-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Alex Myczko <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Alex Myczko <[email protected]>
Closes: 1050966 1114046
Changes:
amiwm (0.22pl2-5) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* d/rules: set C std to gnu99. (Closes: #1114046)
* d/copyright: bump year.
* d/amiwm.desktop: add DesktopNames=amiwm. (Closes: #1050966)
* d/amiwm-portals.conf: added.
* d/watch: bump to version 5.
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