Bug#908749: Please drop gnome-settings-daemon from /etc/xdg/autostart

[Guido Günther]

Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 3.28.1-1
Severity: wishlist

gnome-settings-daemon is started via gnome-session so there's (at least
as I understand it) no need to have it in /etc/xdg/autostart as
well. Having it in there makes debugging session problems harder (since
it's not clear which instance one is looking at), it also makes
customizing the session harder since even with an alternative sesssion
file all the settings daemon's are started due to being in
/etc/xdg/autostart.

If this looks right I can come up with a patch.

Cheers,
 -- Guido


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.30.0-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.28.0-1
ii  libasound2                                   1.1.6-1
ii  libc6                                        2.27-5
ii  libcairo2                                    1.15.12-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-6
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-6
ii  libcolord2                                   1.3.3-2
ii  libcups2                                     2.2.8-5
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.13.0-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.36.12-2
ii  libgeoclue-2-0                               2.4.12-2
ii  libgeocode-glib0                             3.26.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.56.1-2
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-17                        3.30.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.22.30-2
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               232-2
ii  libgweather-3-15                             3.28.1-1
ii  liblcms2-2                                   2.9-2
ii  libnm0                                       1.12.2-3
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.7-3
ii  libnspr4                                     2:4.19-3
ii  libnss3                                      2:3.38-1
ii  libpam-systemd                               239-8
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.42.4-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.42.4-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-21
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      12.0-1
ii  libpulse0                                    12.0-1
ii  libupower-glib3                              0.99.8-2
ii  libwacom2                                    0.30-1
ii  libwayland-client0                           1.16.0-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.6-1
ii  libxext6                                     2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxi6                                       2:1.7.9-1
ii  libxtst6                                     2:1.2.3-1
ii  nautilus-data                                3.30.0-1

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
ii  iio-sensor-proxy  2.4-2
ii  pulseaudio        12.0-1

gnome-settings-daemon suggests no packages.

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