[Lubuntu-desktop] Fw: [Lxde-list] update-notifier causes xscreensaver / gnome-screensaver snafu
Hi Dan, Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:10:41 +0100 From: Dan Muresan danm...@gmail.com To: lxde-l...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Lxde-list] update-notifier causes xscreensaver / gnome-screensaver snafu I've just discovered (after many painful hours of digging) that update-notifier somehow causes dbus to run gnome-screensaver, which of course competes with xscreensaver. I have no idea *how* update-notifier does it, but removing update-notifier.desktop from /etc/xdg/autostart solves the problem. Now, I prefer not to make system-wide changes. Is there a way (freedesktop, lxde, openbox or otherwise) to override autostart entries, or dbus session services, or to ban gnome-screensaver (short of apt-get remove)? This brings a larger question -- can we rely on gnome-screensaver never being started in a modern Linux distro? This is starting to look like a losing battle. I prefer x* to gnome-* any day, given the less-than-professional practices that surface so often in the Gnome team, but I was *very* tempted to replace xscreensaver with gnome-screensaver in /etc/xdg/lxsession/autostart. I am on Ubuntu Lucid (0.5.0-3ubuntu2, update-notifier 0.99.3), so maybe this is all outdated. Even so I would like to file a bug in launchpad, since this is an LTS release. Note that on Ubuntu, non-admin users don't see the problem since for them update-notifier doesn't start. As this is Lubuntu related I have forwarded it to the Lubuntu list lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Please file a bug on Launchpad, as 10.04 is an LTS version and has another couple of years life left. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Fw: [Lxde-list] update-notifier causes xscreensaver / gnome-screensaver snafu
As this is Lubuntu related I have forwarded it to the Lubuntu list lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Please file a bug on Launchpad, as 10.04 is an LTS version and has another couple of years life left. I'll do that... though I'm not sure what component to file against. Regardless, some of the points I made were not Lubuntu, but LXDE-related, so I hope the list won't ignore my message? Even if update-notifier can be fixed, who guarantees that some other component in the future won't start gnome-screensaver and mess up xscreensaver? ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Fw: [Lxde-list] update-notifier causes xscreensaver / gnome-screensaver snafu
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:02:17 +0100 Dan Muresan danm...@gmail.com wrote: As this is Lubuntu related I have forwarded it to the Lubuntu list lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Please file a bug on Launchpad, as 10.04 is an LTS version and has another couple of years life left. I'll do that... though I'm not sure what component to file against. I'd file it against update-notifier initially and allow those with a bit more knowledge of these things to decide where the problem really lies. Make sure you add the tag lubuntu to the bug report. Regardless, some of the points I made were not Lubuntu, but LXDE-related, so I hope the list won't ignore my message? Even if update-notifier can be fixed, who guarantees that some other component in the future won't start gnome-screensaver and mess up xscreensaver? The dev team is quite small, so answers may be a bit slow but I doubt it will be ignored. Sadly with software getting more and more complex I don't think anybody can make guarantees like that. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
