Hi Simon,

On  Di 30 Aug 2016 11:52:49 CEST, Simon McVittie wrote:

> Source: mate-session-manager
> Version: 1.14.1-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> User: dbus@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: dbus-launch dbus-launch-unless-dsba
>
> As described in <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00554.html>
> I'm trying to reduce how much dbus-launch is used in Debian.
> gnome-session has code that explicitly runs dbus-launch if
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS isn't set.
>
> The major D-Bus implementations (libdbus, GDBus, sd-bus) now have a
> fallback code path, before trying X11 autolaunch, when
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is unset: if XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set, and
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus exists, is a socket and is owned by the
> process's uid, then they will use it. In particular, dbus-user-session
> sets up that situation.
>
> For the moment, dbus-user-session does make sure DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
> is set, to be nice to packages that don't have this fallback path.
> However, I'd like to avoid requiring that in future, by adapting
> the dbus-launch code in gnome-session and its forks to look for
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus before trying dbus-launch.
>
> I'll open an upstream bug for gnome-session after doing this MBF. The same
> patch that is used in gnome-session will probably also apply to
> mate-session-manager - based on a glance at the relevant code path, it
> does not appear to have changed since the fork.
>
> Thanks,
>     S

I just looked into this and could neither find a gnome-session  
upstream bug, nor a patch in gnome-session that address the above.

What is the progress on this? Anything that could be taken from  
gnome-session and applied to mate-session-manager?

Thanks,
Mike

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