totem starts gnome-settings-daemon when ran out of GNOME

[Colin Alston]

Binary package hint: totem

When using Ion3 specifically, running Totem causes gnome-terminal fonts to change size. Possibly the system DPI is altered by Totem or was incorrect when Ion3 was started but Totem shouldn't cause this change.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Do you use totem-gstreamer or totem-xine? Is gnome-settings-daemon running before and after starting totem?

[Colin Alston (colina)]

My bug is a bit sucky, I've been trying to go through a strace to see where it accesses the fonts but there is a lot of noise around Totem accessing the fonts. I'm using totem-xine on Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty". Here is some more info.

colin@pandora:~/stuff$ uname -a
Linux pandora 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

colin@pandora:~/stuff$ aptitude search totem
p libtotem-plparser-dev - Totem Playlist Parser library - development version
i libtotem-plparser1 - Totem Playlist Parser library - runtime version
p libtotem-plparser1-dbg - Totem Playlist Parser library - debugging version
i totem - A simple media player for the Gnome desktop (dummy package)
c totem-gstreamer - A simple media player for the Gnome desktop based on gstreamer
v totem-gstreamer-firefox-plugin -
i totem-mozilla - Totem Mozilla plugin
i totem-xine - A simple media player for the Gnome desktop based on xine
v totem-xine-firefox-plugin -

[Colin Alston (colina)]

Ahh it does appear that it's starting gnome-settings-daemon. Killing that takes the fonts back to normal. It appears as well in the strace to be started by Totem so I assume it's needed for it.

Perhaps then this bug is invalid. My Ion3 should probably start gnome-settings-daemon for me to use the gnome stuff without sudden changes, but this shouldn't be the standard for people who want to modify everything to not be gnome..

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

changing to a wishlist request to not start gnome-settings-daemon

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

setting as confirmed as per latest comments, thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug is fixed in hardy