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Mate Desktop

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From: ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: Mate Desktop
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 16:21:34 +0000

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The appended patch series appended for review adds
an almost feature-complete Mate Desktop, including
a mate-desktop-service.

There are persistent problems with mate-screensaver,
if you use the locking function you will be locked
out and can't log back in. I'm happy for any help
with this, I think it's a worthy addition to have.
I had some elogind specific changes in the package
but it didn't help, even when the right binary in
libexec was setuid'ed.

I've been using these patches since the first Mate
patches were merged into our master.
The only change I didn't test was the removal of
the screensaver from the desktop service, but it
should just work (updates are building here right
now).

I should probably add the two links to upstream
wishlist-bugs that I filed.
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From: ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org>
To: 28733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#28733] Mate Desktop
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 23:10:35 +0000

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I forgot to add the changes to gnu/services/desktop.scm,
they are now included in this version.
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Message #11 received at 28733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org>
To: 28733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#28733] Mate Desktop
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 19:14:57 +0000

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ng0 transcribed 60K bytes:
> I forgot to add the changes to gnu/services/desktop.scm,
> they are now included in this version.

A comment on this series:

All the "applications" work.
The service works, but I need some fresh eyes on debugging the screensaver
package (it would be super nice to have screenlocking without locking users
out (disabled for now)). Furthermore I have no experience with our
systemd replacement and how it is supposed to be integrated into
applications, given that I get messages in the syslog about my attempt and
its failed configuration, I need help:

Nov  2 07:35:40 localhost mate-session[546]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name 
Nov  2 07:35:40 localhost last message repeated 3 times
Nov  2 07:40:58 localhost mate-session[546]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name 
Nov  2 07:41:22 localhost mate-session[546]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name 

Yep, I know it's not ConsoleKit, I modified their canonical "--enable-systemd" to
"--enable-elogind".

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Message #14 received at 28733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org>
Cc: 28733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#28733] Mate Desktop
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 23:00:25 +0100

Hi ng0,

thanks for the patches.  I've applied them to master.

I'm keeping this report open for the screensaver package fixes.

It would be possible to package ConsoleKit and use it - but I don't think that it's maintained anymore.

Message #19 received at 28733-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ng0 <ng0 <at> n0.is>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 28733-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#28733] Mate Desktop
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 08:35:49 +0000

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Danny Milosavljevic transcribed 237 bytes:
> Hi ng0,
> 
> thanks for the patches.  I've applied them to master.
> 
> I'm keeping this report open for the screensaver package fixes.
> 
> It would be possible to package ConsoleKit and use it - but I don't think that it's maintained anymore.
> 
> 
> 
> 

I think it's better to close this bug. The screensaver locker feature is not enabled
at the moment and there are a couple more features in other packages which need to be
integrated.

Bug closed.
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