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gnome-panel package

Saucy - cannot uninstall gnome-screensaver because it wants to uninstall gnome-session-flashback also.

Bug #1199074 reported by Cavsfan
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This bug affects 10 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Dmitry Shachnev

Bug Description

I wanted to uninstall gnome-screensaver and have xscreensaver work but, when I attempt to remove gnome-screensaver, it wants to take gnome-session-flashback. That is not what I want to do.

Tags: trusty
Cavsfan (cavsfan)
affects: cairo-dock (Ubuntu) → ubuntu
Cavsfan (cavsfan)
summary: - cannot uninstall gnome-screensaver because it wants to uninstall gnome-
- session-flashback also.
+ Saucy - cannot uninstall gnome-screensaver because it wants to uninstall
+ gnome-session-flashback also.
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

The problem is that gnome-screensaver is listed in the RequiredComponents for GNOME Flashback.

We should first check whether that's actually necessary for Flashback to work with gnome-screensaver.

It it is, I think it's possible to use Debian's alternative system to have a generic screensaver package that could be listed in RequiredComponents and then have gnome-session-flashback depend on any one of the packages that provide the generic screensaver functionality.

affects: ubuntu → gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Cavsfan (cavsfan) wrote :

Found a workaround to leave gnome-screensaver installed while running xscreensaver:
Create a script to run at startup with these commands. Anything less than 60 seconds is less likely to work.

#! /bin/bash
sleep 60
killall gnome-screensaver

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Cavsfan (cavsfan) wrote :

This currently affects Trusty 14.04 as well as Saucy 13.10. But, the workaround above works well.

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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote :

Committed fix to Svn, will be in the next upload.

Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)
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Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote :

I added the trusty tag in hopes that the fix will carry over to Trusty LTS, hope that's OK.

tags: added: trusty
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-panel - 1:3.8.0-1ubuntu3

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gnome-panel (1:3.8.0-1ubuntu3) trusty; urgency=low

  * Rebuild for libgweather transition.
  * Remove gnome-screensaver from required components (LP: #1199074).
 -- Dmitry Shachnev <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:46:14 +0400

Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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