Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: indicator-session (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1302852
Title:
Does not work in non-Unity DEs/Xsessions
Status in indicator-session package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Clicking any of the actions that require a prompt - shutdown, restart, etc. -
in a non-Unity X session do not work. This seems to be caused by prompt
selection code in
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-session/trunk.14.04/view/head:/src/backend-dbus/actions.c#L94
- it always assumes that Unity prompt is available even if it, in fact, is
not.
Checking for availability of Zenity prompt first is reported to fix this.
For a proper solution the code responsible for detecting Unity prompt
availability should be improved. Right now it seems to be simply checking if it
can access D-bus. I assume the prompt is invoked via a D-bus call so I've
investigated checking for name presence on the bus, but that can potentially be
slow since it has a manually-set timeout.
Checking the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP variable and only showing the Unity prompt
if it's set to "Unity" sounds like a better idea to me, but I'm not sure if the
variable is set on Ubuntu Touch at all.
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