Bug 282777 – Unwanted xfce autostart programs under gnome

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Juergen Rose 2009-08-26 07:34:24 UTC]

I have installed gnome and xfce4. Normally I use only gnome. For some days I see that gnome-sessions tries to start some xfce programms. I find in 
/home/rose/.config/autostart:
-rw-r--r-- 1 rose users 245 26. Aug 00:21 xfce4-settings-helper-autostart.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 rose users 378 26. Aug 00:21 xfce4-tips-autostart.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 rose users 289 26. Aug 00:21 xfconf-migration-4.6.desktop

And I find in the menu System->Preferences->Sessions:
Xfce Settings Helper
Xfce4-Tipps
Xfconf Migration Script


In .xsessions-errors there are a lot of warnings:

(xfce4-settings-helper:3453): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/Default/KeyRepeat" does not exist on channel "keyboards"

(xfce4-settings-helper:3453): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/Default/KeyRepeat/Delay" does not exist on channel "keyboards"

(xfce4-settings-helper:3453): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/Default/KeyRepeat/Rate" does not exist on channel "keyboards"

(xfce4-settings-helper:3453): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/StickyKeys" does not exist on channel "accessibility"

(xfce4-settings-helper:3453): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/SlowKeys" does not exist on channel "accessibility"

(xfce4-settings-helper:3453): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/BounceKeys" does not exist on channel "accessibility"

(xfce4-settings-helper:3453): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/MouseKeys" does not exist on channel "accessibility"

(xfce4-settings-helper:3453): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_param_spec_flags: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_FLAGS (flags_type)' failed

(xfce4-settings-helper:3453): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_class_install_property: assertion `G_IS_PARAM_SPEC (pspec)' failed

(xfce4-settings-helper:3453): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/Default/XkbDisable" does not exist on channel "keyboard-layout"

(xfce4-settings-helper:3453): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at xfconf_channel_get_internal():390: Property "/general/workspace_names" does not exist on channel "xfwm4"
gdesklets-daemon wird gestartet …
^MVerbinden mit Daemon [###          ]
MCS->Xfconf settings migration complete
^MVerbinden mit Daemon [###          ]
MCS->Xfconf settings migration complete

^MVerbinden mit Daemon [ ###         ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [  ###        ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [   ###       ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [    ###      ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [     ###     ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [      ###    ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [       ###   ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [        ###  ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [         ### ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [          ###]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [         ### ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [        ###  ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [       ###   ]libnotify-Message: GetCapabilities call failed: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
^MVerbinden mit Daemon [      ###    ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [     ###     ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [    ###      ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [   ###       ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [  ###        ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [ ###         ]
** (nm-applet:3440): WARNING **: Invalid return value type: GPtrArray_DBusGObjectPath_
^MVerbinden mit Daemon [###          ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [ ###         ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [  ###        ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [   ###       ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [    ###      ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [     ###     ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [      ###    ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [       ###   ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [        ###  ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [         ### ]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [          ###]^MVerbinden mit Daemon [         ### ]** Message: Initializing gksu extension...
^M                                        ^MIn 3405 Millisekunden mit dem Daemon verbunden.

(gnome-panel:3427): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -9 and height 48

** (nautilus:3432): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported
Desktop-Datei /usr/share/applications/mozilla-firefox-3.0.desktop konnte nicht für Panel-Starter :  geöffnet werdenDatei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

** (nautilus:3432): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported

** (orage:4210): WARNING **: Default timezone set to floating. Do not use timezones when setting appointments, it does not make sense without proper local timezone.
** Message: Orage **: Bereite Dateiimport vor

** (orage:4210): CRITICAL **: pre_format: is not in utf8 format. Conversion needed.
 (Use iconv and convert it into UTF-8 and import it again.)


** (orage:4210): WARNING **: import failed file=/home/rose/Desktop/DieStadtvonderdieRussentraeumen.ics


(orage:4210): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display: assertion `atom != GDK_NONE' failed

(orage:4210): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display: assertion `atom != GDK_NONE' failed
** Message: Orage **: Benachrichtigungsliste: 0 Benachrichtigungen hinzugefügt. 0 Ereignisse bearbeitet.
** Message: Orage **:   0 Benachrichtigungen, von denen 0 aktiv sind, gefunden (0 wiederkehrende Benachrichtigungen wurden durchsucht).
** Message: Orage **: Archivierung nicht aktiviert. Beende

** (gnome-session-properties:5584): WARNING **: could not read /home/rose/.config/autostart/xfconf-migration-4.6.desktop: Die Schlüsselwertedatei enthält nicht den Schlüssel »Name«

** (gnome-session-properties:5584): WARNING **: could not read /home/rose/.config/autostart/xfce4-settings-helper-autostart.desktop: Die Schlüsselwertedatei enthält nicht den Schlüssel »Name«

Who put this files to in /home/rose/.config/autostart? Under gnome they are really annoying.



Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-08-26 07:42:56 UTC]

Because that's how Xfce 4.4 style MCS settings get migrated into Xfce 4.6 style XFCONF settings for example.

~/.config/autostart/xfconf-migration-4.6.desktop

We won't be changing this. As for others, open a ticket to http://bugzilla.xfce.org and ask them.

Thanks.

[Comment 2 Juergen Rose 2009-09-30 20:37:57 UTC]

Hello Samuli,
Thank you for the explaination, But what should I do?
If it is not a bug, why should I open a ticket http://bugzilla.xfce.org?
I mean, it is not a xfce but a gnome problem.

in ~rose/.config/autostart/xfce4-settings-helper-autostart.desktop I find the line:

X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false

Does this line not mean, that the program should not auto-started under Gnome?

If these entries in ~rose/.config/autostart/ are only for the migration of Xfce 4.4 style MCS settings into Xfce 4.6 style settings. Why these entries does not disapear after starting xfce? Should I erase them manually?

Regards Juergen


Or s

[Comment 3 Juergen Rose 2009-10-06 12:23:41 UTC]

My problem is still not solved. 

[Comment 4 Juergen Rose 2009-10-06 15:10:44 UTC]

Why I can't disable the xfc autostart programms?
I go the first time to Systems->Settings->Autostart (translated from german, maybe not exactly so in english) and see three Xfc programs:
  Xfce Settings Helper
  Xfce4-Tipps
  Xfconf Migration Script
I try to disable these programs, I remove the 'v' from the check boxes. Then I close the menu and try once more. Then the check-boxes for these three programs are again activated. I also erased the xfc entries in ~/.config/autostart.
If logout from gdm and login again. I find three new xfc-entries under ~/.config/autostart.

Is there no other way to get rid from these xfc-autostart-entries beside of erasing xfc-packages completely?

[Comment 5 Juergen Rose 2009-10-06 15:17:40 UTC]

Now I tried to remove the Xfc entries from the Systems->Settings->Autostart menu.
If I open the menu the next time, they exist again.

[Comment 6 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2009-10-06 18:46:25 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Hello Samuli,
> Thank you for the explaination, But what should I do?
> If it is not a bug, why should I open a ticket http://bugzilla.xfce.org?

So why do you open a bug here? As said in comment #1, we won't change anything.

[Comment 7 Juergen Rose 2009-10-06 19:00:57 UTC]

Thanks for the answer. Sorry that I bother you. I do not expect, that you change something. I hoped only, that you have perhaps a workaround, which I could apply.

[Comment 8 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2009-10-06 19:05:18 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Thanks for the answer. Sorry that I bother you. I do not expect, that you
> change something. I hoped only, that you have perhaps a workaround, which I
> could apply.
> 

If you just need support, please use our forums, mailing-list or irc channels on freenode.

bugzilla is not for support.

[Comment 9 Juergen Rose 2009-10-08 08:27:22 UTC]

By the way, is it not a bug of gnome-session, if I can not stop or remove autostart programs, which are shown under Systems->Settings->Autostart?