Environment variables when using the email launcher

Hello,

I am in the process of testing seahorse integration with my usual
environment (wheezy/testing gnome3, without any special tweaks;
gnupg-agent installed but disabled at session start editing
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent).

I find that if I launch icedove either from the terminal
(gnome-terminal, $GPG_AGENT_INFO is set) or from the launcher (left-hand
side of the window), I get gpg working ok (using seahorse as a
gpg-agent, I suppose).

However, if I launch it from the "shortcut" key set in the Keyboard
parameters, gpg is not working correctly (cannot contact gpg-agent: no
gpg-agent available in this session). My guess is that GPG_AGENT_INFO is
not set when using this special session.

I would like to investigate this further, but I do not have many ideas
about where to start. Do you have any ideas ?

Sincerly,
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Jean-Christophe Dubacq

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Disabling tracker-miner for some directory globally

Hello,

Is there any way I can disable tracker for some directories (we have
some NFS directories and we really do not want any kind of tracker
activity duplicated 100 times on these directories). I have been looking
in the source code, but it's a bit too arcane for me to find if a global
configuration file exists. Is there?

Sincerly,
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getting rid of the gnome-shell network-manager dependency

Any idea when gnome-shell will be fixed to not depend on
network-manager being installed?

[gnome-shell dies at startup unless network-manager is installed, but
network-manager interacts very badly with NFS, so installing NM is at
best a painful workaround...]

Thanks,

-Miles

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Default groups

Hi,

Every now and then I am revisiting the "default group" issue for my
lab's gnome desktop. I recently built a new image, and last time (a few
years ago), I found that in fact very few groups were required to be
added to each user (plugdev and fuse and pulse-rt, IIRC).
However, http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopHowTo lists many more of
these groups: audio, plugdev, camera, video, floppy, cdrom, tape and
maybe scanner, fax, dip (for "dial-ip", ppp connections to Internet with
pon/poff as set up by pppconfig) or dialout (full serial ports/modem
access).

Has anyone knowledge of wether these groups could be useful in some
cases that I didn't foresee or couldn't test? I do not think any of
these are still useful (but I do not own a camera, and I am not sure how
one can see whether pulse-rt is useful or not). Sincerly,
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building evolution

Hi,

I'm trying to find the fastest way to iterate through modifying and
testing some changes on the evolution package.
What I want to achieve is to make && make install into a tmp directory
and be able to run evolution from there, task that I'm failing because
evolution is loading .so from the system instead of the tmp dir.

What do you recommend?

ps: I've downloaded the wheezy evolution src package
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evolution extensions

Hi,

I want to make an evolution extension that adds a simple 'archive'
button that mimics the gmail's one.

I have a doubt about what evolution source should I change. I'm using
wheezy right now, so most of my gnome packages are 3.2.* even though
gnome's master is in 3.3.
What I was thinking is getting evolution src from debian, make changes
and build the package again. Instead of getting the latest evolution
from upstream.

What do you recommend?

Thanks in advance.

ps: I don't even know if I should be asking this kind of question in
this mailing list.

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glade3 and gtk2

Hi List,

is it possible to use glade3 (currently using 3.10.2 from unstable) with
gtk2?

In the generated .glade files there is always the following line:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <interface>
      <!-- interface-requires gtk+ 3.0 -->
    ...

I spent quite some time searching for a solution how to use glade3 with
gtk2 but did not find a solution.

If it's not possible, would it be possible to provide a glade for gtk2?
I guess some other users would also welcome that, since for example
matplotlib does not work yet with gtk3 as backend, but needs gtk2 instead.

Cheers,

Bastian

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gnome-shell: disable "snap maximize"?

Hi, another question about gnome3 / gnome-shell:

When one is dragging a window, if you happen to drag into the top-bar
area of the screen, it _maximizes_ the window... this is very
undesirable, as it's very easy to do this by mistake if you want to
position the window as far upwards as possible.

Is there a way to turn this behavior off?

[This time I looked for likely settings in the output of "gsettings",
but didn't see anything...]

Thanks,

-miles

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Get Empathy sounds working

Hi!

How can I get Empathy sounds working?
On my installation, I don't get a sound notification when I receive a 
new message in Empathy.
Maybe this is a general issue with sound notifications on my system, as 
I don't get any notifications except from the login sound (but maybe 
they are simply turned off).

When I go to Settings/Audio/Sound Effects, all effects are grayed out.

However, I don't care for the other sound effects too much - it's just 
annoying in empathy.

I have Debian Wheezy x64 running on a Thinkpad T400. I use Gnome 3.
Empathy version is 3.2.2, gnome-shell version is 3.2.1

My user is member of the group audio. The following packages are 
installed (list is not complete of course)

* freedesktop-sound-theme
* gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio
* pulseaudio
* libcanberra-gtk-module
* libcanberra-gtk3-module

Here is what I've tried so far:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=75040&p=416173#p416173

Thank you in advance!

stop gnome3 from auto-mounting usb devices?

How can I stop gnome 3 from auto-mounting USB devices when they are
inserted?  [e.g. I plug my ipod into the computer with a USB cable]

This didn't happen before I upgraded to gnome 3, and gnome is popping up
a big dialog asking what want to do, so I guess it has something to do
with gnome3.

[I never want anything auto-mounted, ever.]

Thanks,

-Miles

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