FS#65131 - plasma-wayland-desktop plasmawayand.desktop file ignored by GDM if plasma.destkop present

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Gašper Ažman (atomicity) - Monday, 13 January 2020, 14:25 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Thursday, 16 January 2020, 20:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: GDM deduplicates plasmawayland.desktop and plasma.desktop because they have the same name strings.

Package versions:
extra/gdm 3.34.1-1 (gdm)
extra/plasma-wayland-session 5.17.5-1 (plasmawayland.desktop)
extra/plasma-workspace 5.17.5-1 (plasma.desktop)

Exhibited behaviour:
The problem is that gdm only shows the plasma.desktop entry (and the wayland gnome desktop entry, which confirms it does scan /usr/share/wayland-clients/).

Desired behaviour:
It should show both entries.

Some more detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/dim3fo/gdm_does_not_see_the_plasma_wayland_session/f5nyjgi/

The clue is that apparently, gdm deduplicates entries with the same name, thus hiding the wayland plasma session.
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Thursday, 16 January 2020, 20:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  Will be fixed in Plasma 5.18

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