Bug#864221: firefox: Cannot open link from gnome-terminal anymore

[Laurent Bigonville]

On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 14:25:55 +0200 Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org> 
wrote:

 > Hi,
 >
 > When clicking on a link in gnome-terminal, the page is not being opened.
 >
 > In the journal I can see the following message:
 >
 > gnome-terminal-server[3319]: Error: GDK_BACKEND does not match 
available displays
 >
 > If I'm setting an other default browser (ie epiphany) it's working as
 > expected.
 >
 > Not too sure what's happening here.

The problem apparently is that the DISPLAY and WAYLAND_DISPLAY 
environment variable is not present when /usr/bin/gnome-session is 
called and then are then obviously not exported by the call of 
dbus-update-activation-environment.