Ubuntu
lubuntu-default-settings package

  1. Bug #2036098
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 2036098

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Simon McVittie (smcv) wrote :

> The Ubuntu session sets DesktopNames to ubuntu:GNOME with a colon.

Are you sure? Be careful: the list separator in .desktop files is a semicolon, but the list separator in the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP environment variable is a colon.

I'm not running Ubuntu, but what I see in Debian is that GNOME variants like Budgie and GNOME Flashback set DesktopNames to a semicolon-separated list (trailing semicolon is optional but recommended) like DesktopNames=Budgie;GNOME or DesktopNames=GNOME-Flashback;GNOME;.

The result of setting DesktopNames like that is a colon-separated list (with no trailing colon) in XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP, like XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Budgie:GNOME or XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME-Flashback:GNOME.