[Spice-devel] [vdagent-linux] Fix gdm autostart path

Marc-André Lureau mlureau at redhat.com
Mon Feb 24 03:26:45 PST 2014



----- Original Message -----
> gdm 3.1.90 (June 2011) changed the path where .desktop files which should
> be autostarted with gdm needs to be located.
> This used to be $(datadir)/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow and is now
> $(datadir)/gdm/greeter/autostart.

ah! :)

> This means that when running gdm in a VM in a recent distribution,
> arbitrary resizing the VM window will not cause the resolution to be
> adjusted. This used to be working in eg RHEL6.
> 
> This patch installs the .desktop file to both paths in order to work both
> with older and newer gdms.

ack

> ---
>  Makefile.am | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> index 74cc313..7fae742 100644
> --- a/Makefile.am
> +++ b/Makefile.am
> @@ -42,9 +42,12 @@ noinst_HEADERS = src/glib-compat.h \
>  xdgautostartdir = $(sysconfdir)/xdg/autostart
>  xdgautostart_DATA = $(top_srcdir)/data/spice-vdagent.desktop
>  
> -gdmautostartdir = $(datadir)/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow
> +gdmautostartdir = $(datadir)/gdm/greeter/autostart
>  gdmautostart_DATA = $(top_srcdir)/data/spice-vdagent.desktop
>  
> +gdmautostart2dir = $(datadir)/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow
> +gdmautostart2_DATA = $(top_srcdir)/data/spice-vdagent.desktop
> +
>  install-data-local:
>  	$(mkdir_p) $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/run/spice-vdagentd
>  
> --
> 1.8.5.3
> 
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