Re: [oe][meta-xfce][PATCH] xfce4-session: update for emptty

[Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>]

On Tue Mar 10, 2026 at 4:51 PM CDT, Randolph Sapp via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>
>
> The x-session-manager alternative link has been removed. Instead a
> distro should choose what the default session is by using the
> DEFAULT_SESSION variable of xserver-nodm-init.
>
> If the default session cannot be found the user will be presented with a
> menu to pick the session themselves. This relies on the xsession and
> wayland-sessions desktop entries, which XFCE already provides.
>
> Signed-off-by: Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>
> ---
>
> Sending this now that emptty has been picked up on oe-core's master-next branch.
>
>  .../recipes-xfce/xfce4-session/xfce4-session_4.20.3.bb      | 6 +-----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfce4-session/xfce4-session_4.20.3.bb b/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfce4-session/xfce4-session_4.20.3.bb
> index af7ab98ae5..3690078daf 100644
> --- a/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfce4-session/xfce4-session_4.20.3.bb
> +++ b/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfce4-session/xfce4-session_4.20.3.bb
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
>
>  DEPENDS = "libwnck3 libsm libxfce4ui libxfce4windowing virtual/libx11"
>
> -inherit xfce update-alternatives features_check
> +inherit xfce features_check
>
>  SRC_URI += "file://0001-configure.in-hard-code-path-to-iceauth.patch"
>  SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "dbf00672c5316a30b7001fe852e6a5ba9f889afeab8a247545a160d4302f1fa2"
> @@ -19,10 +19,6 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[polkit] = "--enable-polkit, --disable-polkit, polkit"
>  EXTRA_OECONF = "GDBUS_CODEGEN=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/gdbus-codegen \
>                  GLIB_COMPILE_RESOURCES=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/glib-compile-resources"
>
> -ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "x-session-manager"
> -ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[x-session-manager] = "${bindir}/xfce4-session"
> -ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY_${PN} = "150"
> -
>  FILES:${PN} += " \
>      ${libdir}/xfce4/*/*/*.so \
>      ${libdir}/xfce4/session/*-*-* \
> --
> 2.53.0

The required emptty series was removed from oe-core master-next. Please hold off
on taking this patch for now.

Randolph