"Problem inhibiting the screensaver" warnings when run out of GNOME

[Martin Konôpka]

I type a comand like

evince file.pdf

The file is opened as it should but an annoying message appears in the terminal:

** (evince:9497): WARNING **: Problem inhibiting the screensaver: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name "org.gnome.SessionManager" does not exist

It is annoying because it simply prevents user to have a clean and easily readable content of the terminal window.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: evince 3.4.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 18 12:12:50 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=sk:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=sk_SK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, what desktop environment do you use? Is gnome-session running?

[Martin Konôpka (martin.konopka)]

I am using "xubuntu" session. The installation is the standard xubuntu one; I have the choice of either "xubuntu" session of "xfce" session. The languague is slovak.

There is no GNOME session available on the login screen.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ok, so it's normal that the GNOME session inhibit call is not working, that's not really a bug

[Vadim Zeitlin (vz-ubuntu)]

This not-really-a-bug makes launching evince from command line completely impractical because it keeps spewing these not-really-helpful warnings. It would be great if this could be fixed by the upstream (I do agree that it's not a Ubuntu bug).