xdg-desktop-portal?

[Tom Horsley]

After running fedora 31 for a day or so, I now have thousands
of lines of this in my messages log:

Nov  3 12:43:21 zooty xdg-desktop-por[33248]: Failed to get application states: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed: Could not get window list: Cannot invoke method; proxy is for the well-known name org.gnome.Shell without an owner, and proxy was constructed with the G_DBUS_PROXY_FLAGS_DO_NOT_AUTO_START flag

How do I make xdg-desktop-portal go away and stop bothering me?

(I'm not running gnome shell, I'm running a custom fvwm session,
but systemd starts this junk anyway in my user deamon).

Hi.

On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 12:51:16 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote:
> How do I make xdg-desktop-portal go away and stop bothering me?

Try, under your account:

systemctl --user mask xdg-desktop-portal.service

eventually also:

systemctl --user mask xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service

Hoping that dbus will not generate as many messages failing to spawn
those services.

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 19:19:22 +0100
[e-mail] wrote:
> systemctl --user mask xdg-desktop-portal.service

That seems to have worked. I clobbered a few more that looked
useless as well. I'll see if I run into anything that doesn't
work now.

Thanks.