Package: obsession
Version: 20140608-2
I have an XDG config hierarchy with the following directories:
/etc/xdg/autostart/
/etc/xdg/xdg-openbox/autostart/
The Xsession startup scripts correctly set
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-openbox:/etc/xdg
I have placed a number of *.desktop files under xdg-openbox/autostart/
which effectively disable those under xdg/autostart/, by adding the
Hidden=true directive to files of the same name. The intent is for
Openbox sessions to not run any of the normal XDG autostart programs, in
order to keep the session lightweight.
As an example...
# /etc/xdg/autostart/xiccd.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=xiccd
GenericName=X color management daemon
Comment=Applies color management profiles to your session
Exec=xiccd
Terminal=false
Type=Application
NotShowIn=GNOME;KDE;
# /etc/xdg/xdg-openbox/autostart/xiccd.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Hidden=true
Unfortunately, xdg-autostart executes files in xdg/autostart/. In
~/.xsession-errors, I see this:
** Message: 23:00:46.576: xdg-autostart.vala:39: Processing
/etc/xdg/autostart/xiccd.desktop file.
** Message: 23:00:46.584: xdg-autostart.vala:94: Launching: xiccd
(xiccd.desktop)
This behavior disregards the following section of the "Desktop
Application Autostart Specification":
Hidden Key
When the .desktop file has the Hidden key set to true, the .desktop
file MUST be ignored. When multiple .desktop files with the same
name exists in multiple directories then only the Hidden key in the
most important .desktop file must be considered: If it is set to
true all .desktop files with the same name in the other directories
MUST be ignored as well.
(https://specifications.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html)
Upstream appears to have abandoned the xdg-autostart implementation
used in Debian. I would suggest removing it from the obsession package,
and have openbox rely on its own openbox-xdg-autostart program, which
uses PyXDG and handles the startup process in a more conformant manner.
(The openbox package would then probably need to gain a dependency on
python3-xdg, as currently it has none.)
--Daniel
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Daniel Richard G. || sk...@iskunk.org
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