Re: Bug#584905: plasma-netbook not auto-starting on a fresh install
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:35 PM, George Kiagiadakis
<kiagiadakis.george@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Brendon Higgins <blhiggins@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I think I've found a reason why plasma-netbook doesn't autostart.
>> /usr/share/autostart/plasma-netbook.desktop doesn't exist. The equivalent,
>> plasma-desktop.desktop, does exist (in the plasma-desktop package).
>> Presumably, this is why plasma-desktop will autostart, whereas plasma-netbook
>> won't.
>>
>> Now I don't know if plasma-netbook.desktop ought to exist given upstream
>> sources, or not. A quick search in KDE sources doesn't find anything, yet
>> apparently there is such a file in Ubuntu (Lucid). :-S
>>
>> I guess the Ubuntu file could be distro custom. I should file a bug with KDE,
>> perhaps?
>>
>> Peace,
>> Brendon
>
> I'm turning this email into a bug report, since this seems to be a
> packaging problem.
>
> The relevant kubuntu patch seems to be this one [1] and it seems it
> has been removed from the 4.5 beta packages, with a changelog message
> indicating it has been fixed upstream, although I see no
> plasma-netbook.desktop in their plasma-netbook.install file.
>
> I don't fully understand though how this is going to work when one has
> both plasma-desktop and plasma-netbook installed... are they both
> going to be autostarted? Also, why does plasma-netbook autostart when
> plasma-desktop is installed and a "netbook" form factor is selected in
> systemsettings? (I had tried that once)
>
> [1]. http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/kdebase-workspace/ubuntu/annotate/340/debian/patches/kubuntu_102_plasma_netbook_no_autostart.diff
>
Hi,
I tested this on my system and I noticed that both plasma-desktop and
plasma-netbook can autostart without having any plasma-*.desktop file
in /usr/share/autostart. I wonder how this happens and why it doesn't
work on your system, Brendon. Scott, do you know any more details
about how this is handled? I am still not convinced about why this
patch solves the problem.
Best regards,
George
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