Can not you get session id from logind manager using /org/freedesktop/login1/session/auto path?
dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1/session/auto org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get string:org.freedesktop.login1.Session string:Id On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 2:27 PM Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> wrote: > retitle 1040920 "Gnome flashback breaks out of logind session" > thanks > > Upon closer examination, the problem is not that GNome flashback unsets > XDG_SESSION_ID, but that it breaks out of the active logind session (so > unsetting the variable is, in some way, correct). > > In other desktop environments (vanilla i3 as well as regular Gnome), the > desktop environment is correctly associated with a logind session: > > nikratio@vostro ~> dbus-send --system --print-reply > --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 > org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.GetSessionByPID uint32:$fish_pid > method return time=1689506142.664977 sender=:1.6 -> destination=:1.1126 > serial=2461 reply_serial=2 > object path "/org/freedesktop/login1/session/_342" > > When running Gnome Flashback, however: > > ikratio@vostro ~> dbus-send --system --print-reply > --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 > org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.GetSessionByPID uint32:$fish_pid > Error org.freedesktop.login1.NoSessionForPID: PID 858156 does not belong > to any known session > > > I don't think this is intentional.. or is it? > > Best, > -Nikolaus > > -- Alberts Muktupāvels
