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

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Mon Feb 24 03:35:15 PST 2014


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 06:26:45AM -0500, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- 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


Oh, forgot to mention in the log that while vdagent is now running in gdm
with this patch, arbitrary resizing is still not working (nothing happens
when resizing the window). This is still probably a step in the right
direction ;)

Christophe
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