No launcher for gnome-session-properties in applications menu

Bug #1018031 reported by Matthieu Baerts
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gnome-session (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Hello,

It's maybe not a bug but with Ubuntu Precise (and Quantal) it's not possible to launch gnome-session-properties (aka: "Startup Applications") from the applications menu simply because its .desktop file contains that:
   NoDisplay=true

Is it possible to modify this value because it's not possible to easily launch this GUI? (e.g. from a Cairo-Dock session, this launcher is not available from the Applications Menu applet due to this 'NoDisplay=true')

If it's feature and not a bug, sorry for this bug report but can I just know why?

Tags: patch
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Matthieu Baerts (matttbe) wrote :
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tags: added: patch
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, it was turned off upstream in that commit:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-session/commit/?id=84a733203e076142a960005eaf0ac602521470fb

"[session-properties] set NoDisplay=true for the session properties dialog
It doesn't really fit into the new System Settings design nor does it really make sense for a user to be able to turn off core desktop components like power management or networking. We'll likely redesign this to only show applications and include it in some other place in the System Settings."

Since we do patch those services to not show up in this dialog in might make sense to display it back in Ubuntu...

Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks, I've commited that to the packaging vcs

Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Unsubscribing sponsors.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-session - 3.5.2-0ubuntu2

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gnome-session (3.5.2-0ubuntu2) quantal; urgency=low

  [ Matthieu Baerts (matttbe) ]
  * debian/patches/106_display_gnome-session-properties.patch:
   - session-properties is now visible in applications menu (LP: #1018031)

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * debian/patches/53_add_sessionmigration.patch, debian/control:
    - recommends and launch the session-migration if present at the start
      of the session. This sync tool is running different session migration
      scripts that can be provided in various desktop packages.
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:24:36 +0200

Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Pavlo (pavlo-solntsev) wrote :

Hi,
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
Codename: quantal

gnome-session 3.6.0-0ubuntu1.1

Can't get access to the "Startup applications" .
Tried in terminal :
sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop

No luck. Any idea?

Pavel.

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Matthieu Baerts (matttbe) wrote :

It's name should be 'Startup Applications' and located in Settings menu.

But you can also launch it with by using the name of the program: gnome-session-properties

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harpreet bhatia (bluepicaso) wrote :

does not work

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