Fwd: Call for testing - unity-control-center (fork of gnome-control-center so we can stay on an old version)

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 11 December 2013 08:57, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Dimitri John Ledkov [2013-12-11  8:54 +0000]:
>> Well, it's managed by session upstart, so one could simply do/trigger
>> $ restart indicator-session
>
> Nope, postinst runs in a system/root context, not in a desktop
> session:
>
> # restart indicator-session
> restart: Unknown job: indicator-session
>
> pkill'ing *all* running session indicators is quite a large hammer
> indeed. But requiring a session restart isn't that big of a deal, I
> was just bringing it up as a possibility.
>

I see what you mean. one could iterate all user sessions and restart
indicator-session in each one, but that is also intrusive.
We already have desktop migrations running on login, but re-login is
all that is needed here....

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Regards,

Dimitri.