GNOME 3.36 Compatibility
deuill opened this issue · 7 comments
GNOME 3.36 is out (and already available on certain distributions, such as Arch Linux), and certain aspects of GNOME-Flashback have also changed. This issue catalogues known issues and possible solutions, which will potentially be automated in the future. That said, none of the core session files need any updates this time around, and will work out-the-box.
Desktop is managed by GNOME Flashback, including desktop icons. This unfortunately isn't handled as a background window, but as an invisible window (which can be killed as with any other window). You can disable desktop handling by turning org.gnome.gnome-flashback.desktop off, which will have the "desktop" window disappear. This will also have GNOME Flashback not handle setting the wallpaper, however, which you can enable selectively by turning org.gnome.gnome-flashback.root-background on.
Screensaver capabilities are now handled within GNOME Flashback itself. This means you no longer require having gnome-screensaver installed, and can activate the lock screen by sending a DBus command, i.e.:
dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver /org/gnome/ScreenSaver org.gnome.ScreenSaver.Lock
It also appears that starting a new session will change back to GDM/TTY1 after a few seconds. Changing to TTY2 or logging in again works and doesn't show the issue again.
Also, to disable the Desktop window in 3.36:
dconf write /org/gnome/gnome-flashback/desktop false.
I made a fork to do this automatically. Maybe not the most elegant way, but it seems to work: https://github.com/SkyyySi/i3-gnome-flashback/
Is there any chance it'll get merged? I cannot open a proper pull request for it, as it was uploaded as a new repository (since you can only have on fork at once) sadly.
Oh sure, I'll take a look at the changes and open a PR.