Session Indicator Still Appears in Stracciatella Session

[Rick Spencer]

Observed:
With a stracciatella session, the Session Indicator appears and works, and the System menu does not have standard log out/shutdown items.

Expected:
No Session indicator, System menu is stock

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 5 17:29:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-stracciatella-session 0.0.2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: stracciatella-session
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2488): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2488): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2644): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2594): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:2589): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -15 and height 24

[Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3)]

I would be happy to see this picked up in an update after karmic ships

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This needs to be fixed in indicator-session itself, similar to what indicator-applet does:

        /* check if we are running stracciatella session */
        if (g_strcmp0(g_getenv("GDMSESSION"), "gnome-stracciatella") == 0) {
                g_debug("Running stracciatella GNOME session, disabling myself");
                return TRUE;
        }

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This seems to be trickier than I thought. Using the same code in src-session/ (for indicator-applet-session) as in src/ (for indicator-applet) works fine, and the applet hides itself under stracciatella. However, this is "running enough" to tell the panel to not show the log out/shutdown entries any more.

So either we need to adapt the gnome-panel code for this as well and only hide the menu entries if the applet is really running, or we need a better way to terminate the applet without triggering the "unexpected quit" gnome-session complaint.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Discussed with Ted (thanks!).

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Ted, since you already upstreamified the corresponding patch in the indicator-applet code, would you consider applying this as well?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-applet - 0.2.0-0ubuntu2

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indicator-applet (0.2.0-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: Enable simple-patchsys.
  * Add debian/patches/01_stracciatella.patch: Do not show up in stracciatella
    session. (LP: #444149)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:38:39 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-panel - 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu5

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gnome-panel (1:2.28.0-0ubuntu5) karmic; urgency=low

  * 25_dynamic_fusa_detection.patch: Do not touch menu items when running
    under stracciatella. (LP: #444149)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:42:35 +0200