Bug#255515: Default session mechanism proposal

[Dan Korostelev]

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I agree that would be cool. I want to package gnome-clipboard-daemon (a
daemon that stores clipboard data even when you close its program) and
it'd be cool if I were able to add it to default GNOME session to make
it "Just work".

The simpliest method is to make an update-gnome-session command that
will create default.session file from parts located in
default-session.d/ directory. No need to even change any gnome-session
code. By default, gnome-session package will install the essential
default session data and run update-gnome-session command that will add
that file first and the ones from default-session.d/ directory then.

Other packages that will add their programs to default session, will
install their part to default-session.d/ directory and do the
update-gnome-session in postinst.

The simpliest update-gnome-session script is like this:

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#!/bin/sh
cat /usr/share/gnome/gnome-session.default > /usr/share/gnome/default.sessi=
on
for FILE in /usr/share/gnome/gnome-session/default-session.d/*; do
	cat $FILE >> /usr/share/gnome/default.session;
done
---

I hope you understood my idea. Can't wait it to be realised. ;-)

Thanks for your work, bye!

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Dan Korostelev <dan@ats.energo.ru>

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