Bug#733059: gnome-screensaver cannot be launched by alternative gnome-session

Thu Jul 31 10:05:24 UTC 2014

On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 at 10:56:39 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> The upstream solution to this appears to have been to remove
> gnome-screensaver from the autostart directory entirely, so that
> it will be started by exactly those GNOME sessions that list it as
> a required component (notably gnome-flashback, which is part of
> src:gnome-panel, and your custom i3-gnome session).

It would probably also be a good idea to ask the maintainers of non-core
GNOME sessions in Debian (according to apt-file that means cairo-dock-core,
openbox-gnome-session and xmonad) to either add gnome-screensaver
to their sessions, or make a deliberate decision not to do so.

    S