[Bug 40673] Can't change beagled arguments

[Celso Pinto]

Public bug reported:

Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
After a clean installation I noticed that beagled was using a lot of
resources (>90% CPU) and I tracked this to be an EvolutionMail indexer
issue so I want beagled to start with a --deny-backend EvolutionMail.

I headed to System/Preferences/Sessions to change beagled's startup
command and I was allowed to do so. I changed the command and to give it
a try I logged out and logged in again. A while after login, I noticed
that CPU was again being hogged and I tracked it again to beagled. I
noticed that the argument I set in gnome-session-properties wasn't there
so I executed it again and I noticed that the argument I provided was
missing.

I'm pretty sure this is because I can't change the file
/etc/xdg/autostart/beagled.desktop although I haven't tested this theory
by changing the permissions of that file, to allow me to write to it.

In any case, if a user changes the arguments of a command listed on the
system default autostart, maybe the corresponding autostart .desktop
file should be copied to ~/.config/autostart so that the changes can be
applied.

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Can't change beagled arguments
https://launchpad.net/bugs/40673