Bug#908749: Please drop gnome-settings-daemon from /etc/xdg/autostart

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 7:42 AM Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> Package: gnome-settings-daemon
> Version: 3.28.1-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> gnome-settings-daemon is started via gnome-session so there's (at least
> as I understand it) no need to have it in /etc/xdg/autostart as
> well. Having it in there makes debugging session problems harder (since
> it's not clear which instance one is looking at), it also makes
> customizing the session harder since even with an alternative sesssion
> file all the settings daemon's are started due to being in
> /etc/xdg/autostart.
>
> If this looks right I can come up with a patch.

Please report this to
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/issues

I don't think we're interested in applying this change to Debian until
it is applied in GNOME first.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha