Starting gnome services on startup (4.12)

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi,

It's gnome-screensaver relying on gnome-session, which it won't find
running in xfce because xfce uses xfce4-session, not much xfce can do.

I am not sure it makes much sense to keep this "Launch GNOME services
on startup" option, it's misleading at best.

Cheers,
Olivier

On 2 July 2015 at 13:59, Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri at syk.fi> wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> Just finished installing Fedora 22 on a new computer, and the OS came
> with Xfce 4.12. I am having a problem getting gnome services running on
> startup.
>
> The problem appears when I try to run gnome-screensaver:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [jarmo at localhost ~]$ gnome-screensaver
>
> ** (gnome-screensaver:8631): WARNING **: Couldn't get presence status:
> The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service
> files
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From previous experience I think (?) this implies that gnome services
> are not running. However, in the Advanced tab of "Session and startup" I
> have set "Launch GNOME services on startup", and I also have
> gnome-session installed:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [jarmo at localhost ~]$ dnf list installed 'gnome*'
> Installed Packages
> gnome-abrt.x86_64                          1.2.0-2.fc22                  @System
> gnome-desktop3.x86_64                      3.16.2-1.fc22                 @System
> gnome-icon-theme.noarch                    3.12.0-2.fc21                 @System
> gnome-keyring.x86_64                       3.16.0-1.fc22                 @System
> gnome-keyring-pam.x86_64                   3.16.0-1.fc22                 @System
> gnome-online-accounts.x86_64               3.16.3-1.fc22                 @System
> gnome-python2.x86_64                       2.28.1-15.fc22                @System
> gnome-screensaver.x86_64                   3.6.1-9.fc22                  @System
> gnome-session.x86_64                       3.16.0-1.fc22                 @System
> gnome-themes.noarch                        2.32.0-12.fc21                @System
> gnome-themes-standard.x86_64               3.16.2-1.fc22                 @System
> gnome-vfs2.x86_64                          2.24.4-18.fc22                @System
> gnome-vfs2-common.noarch                   2.24.4-18.fc22                @System
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong.
>
> Jarmo
>
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