Bug 611212 – x11-misc/sddm-0.14.0-r2: DESKTOP_SESSION=MATE vs DESKTOP_SESSION=mate

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Joakim Tjernlund 2017-02-28 14:50:27 UTC]

MATE expects DESKTOP_SESSION to be set to mate, not MATE
which can be seen by inspecting /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ for mate
10-user-dirs-update-mate, 10-xdg-menu-mate and 15-xdg-data-mate all have:
  if [ "$DESKTOP_SESSION" = "mate" ]; then

Can be worked around in Xsession using:
Convert MATE to lower case as MATE scripts expects this
[ "$DESKTOP_SESSION" = "MATE" ] && DESKTOP_SESSION=mate
export DESKTOP_SESSION

[Comment 1 Joakim Tjernlund 2017-09-23 14:19:37 UTC]

I think this should be reassigned to MATE instead.
MATE should test for both "mate" and "MATE" so we don't have to
fix every random DM

[Comment 2 Joakim Tjernlund 2017-10-03 07:12:41 UTC]

I am closing this as I think MATE should use XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
instead