Bug 804318

Summary:	gdm should not execute autostart entries
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lubos Stanek <lubek>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Lubos Stanek 2012-03-17 19:44:06 UTC

Description of problem:
GDM executes gnome-session in the failsafe mode (user specified applications will not be started).
But it executes GNOME based applications and services from the XDG Autostart list.
This slow downs the login session as nothing is configured for the gdm user, applications and services frequently timeout.
In my case it prevented pulseaudio to properly switch the user context resulting in disabled audio due to permissions (two computers).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-3.2.1.1-8.fc16.86_64

How reproducible:
Check /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log.

Additional info:
I created /var/lib/gdm/.config/autostart directory and blacklisted unusable or useless startup entries for the gdm user. Is it really worth running tracker for the gdm user?
The logon session is faster, nothing wrong is reported in :0-greeter.log, pulseaudio switches user context properly, audio works. Heaven! :-)

I would also say that it could be a usability and a security hole.

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