False alarms from mintreport-tray #98
Description
On XFCE, Mintreport-tray intermittently shows the "[!]" icon, but once I click on it, it has nothing to report. I found out a while ago that this is remedied by introducing a startup delay.
The delay is actually requested by /etc/xdg/autostart/mintreport.desktop for two other desktop environments, like this:
...
X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=40
X-MATE-Autostart-Delay=40
As you can see, the delay is not applied in XFCE, and I am afraid XFCE has no such option.
So I ended up modifying /etc/xdg/autostart/mintreport.desktop by changing from
Exec=mintreport-tray
to
Exec=/bin/bash -c "sleep 40 && mintreport-tray"
but I had to redo it after upgrading to 21.3 (Virginia) because the upgrade renamed the file.
Perhaps it is possible to make the Exec line conditional depending on desktop environment, but I don't know how to accomplish this. Any ideas?
A better solution would be for mintreport to wait a while after startup, before hastily reporting nonexistent issues. Either way, this is a manual workaround.