Bug#690876: vino: Does not work, no error shown

Eugen Dedu Eugen.Dedu at pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr
Wed Jan 9 18:07:56 UTC 2013


retitle 690876 Show the error when disabled in gnome-session-properties
thanks

On 30/11/12 16:47, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> On 30/11/12 11:54, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> Le jeudi 29 novembre 2012 à 23:11 +0100, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
>>> So the last lines of ~/.config/autostart/vino-server.desktop are:
>>
>> This is a copy of the old autostart file
>>
>>> AutostartCondition=GNOME /desktop/gnome/remote_access/enabled
>>
>> with GConf configuration instead of GSettings.
>>
>>> X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Applications
>>> X-GNOME-AutoRestart=true
>>> X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
>>
>> … and disabled, usually by gnome-session-properties.
>
> Oh yes, you are probably right!
>
>>> Is there an problem here?
>>
>> The problem is that there is no upgrade path for such cases.
>
> I removed the .config/... file, still it does not start. I need to
> restart gnome, is that right?

After enabling it in gnome-session-properties, vino server starts.

> As for the problem, it would be useful to show an error in my case.

So the only remaining problem is to show an error such as "Please enable 
vino in gnome-session-properties" when it is disabled in 
gnome-session-properties.

> Also, I do not see the purpose of the ckeckbox in
> gnome-session-properties, since anyway there is a checkbox for that in
> vino-preferences.

-- 
Eugen



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