Bug#841251: gdm3: Both Nautilas & Nemo Want to Manage Desktop

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Wed Oct 19 15:52:29 UTC 2016


Control: reassign -1 nemo
Control: retitle -1 nemo should not be started under GNOME

Am 19.10.2016 um 17:50 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> [ please always CC the bug report ]
> Am 19.10.2016 um 17:27 schrieb Stephen Allen:
>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 03:00:18AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> Am 19.10.2016 um 01:52 schrieb Stephen Allen:
>>>> Package: gdm3
>>>> Version: 3.22.1-1
>>>> Severity: important
>>>>
>>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>>>
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> I have both Gnome 3.22.x and Cinnamon installed. When logging in using
>>>> GDM3 with Gnome specifically enabled, both Nautilas and Nemo are
>>>> activated to manage my desktop, resulting in double overlapping icons.
>>>> Once I forcequit Nemo, all is well.
>>>
>>> Why is this bug filed against gdm3?
>>> Sounds like a bug in nemo if it wants to manage a GNOME session.
>>
>> OK If I'm calling Gnome, wouldn't it be gnome-session that calls Nemo
>> when starting Gnome-Shell?
> 
> for a gnome session, gnome-session will run what's defined in
> /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome.session, i.e.
> RequiredComponents=org.gnome.Shell;gnome-settings-daemon;
> 
> And then it will start all applications from /etc/xdg/autostart and
> /usr/share/gnome/autostart/.
> 
> So no, gnome-session doesn't start nemo directly unless it was asked so
> by nemo, in which case this would be a bug in nemo, I guess.
> 
> But I have no idea how nemo is started, tbh, which is why I think you
> need to talk to the nemo maintainers.

I'm going to reassign this bug report. The nemo maintainers should be
able to diagnose why nemo is autostarted and if that is something which
it shouldn't do.


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