<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Hi Alberts,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I believe that way you can get *a session id*. However, the fact that the dbus query returns an error means that the various X11 processes (those started by gnome-session as well as those started by the user) are actually not part of that session (or any session, for that matter).<br></div><div><br></div><div>It's not a matter of determining the session id (even though I first thought that), the problem is that the entire gnome flashback session is not associated with a logind session.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,<br>-Nikolaus<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 17 Jul 2023, at 21:02, Alberts Muktupāvels wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div>Can not you get session id from logind manager using /org/freedesktop/login1/session/auto path?<br></div><div><br></div><div>dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1/session/auto org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get string:org.freedesktop.login1.Session string:Id<br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 2:27 PM Nikolaus Rath <<a href="mailto:nikolaus@rath.org">nikolaus@rath.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1px;padding-left:1ex;"><div>retitle 1040920 "Gnome flashback breaks out of logind session"<br></div><div> thanks<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Upon closer examination, the problem is not that GNome flashback unsets XDG_SESSION_ID, but that it breaks out of the active logind session (so unsetting the variable is, in some way, correct).<br></div><div> <br></div><div> In other desktop environments (vanilla i3 as well as regular Gnome), the desktop environment is correctly associated with a logind session:<br></div><div> <br></div><div> nikratio@vostro ~> dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.GetSessionByPID uint32:$fish_pid <br></div><div> method return time=1689506142.664977 sender=:1.6 -> destination=:1.1126 serial=2461 reply_serial=2<br></div><div> object path "/org/freedesktop/login1/session/_342"<br></div><div> <br></div><div> When running Gnome Flashback, however:<br></div><div> <br></div><div> ikratio@vostro ~> dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.GetSessionByPID uint32:$fish_pid <br></div><div> Error org.freedesktop.login1.NoSessionForPID: PID 858156 does not belong to any known session<br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> I don't think this is intentional.. or is it?<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Best,<br></div><div> -Nikolaus<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="qt-gmail_signature_prefix">--</span><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Alberts Muktupāvels<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>