Package: virtualbox-guest-x11 Version: 5.0.6-dfsg-1~bpo8+1 Severity: minor Tags: patch
I am maintaining a distribution based on Debian Live. We have virtualbox-guest-x11 in our default package list so that the distribution also runs fine in VirtualBox. But when the system is *not* running in VirtualBox, which is the main use case, the guest additions X11 client shows a big warning message at startup via notify-send on the desktop. This is unnecessary and really scares normal users. Therefore I propose to use a simple echo instead of notify-send. Please see the attached patch for a fix. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1+lernstick.1-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages virtualbox-guest-x11 depends on: ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libnotify-bin 0.7.6-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-1 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-2+b1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.1-2+b2 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1+b1 ii virtualbox-guest-utils 5.0.6-dfsg-1~bpo8+1 ii xserver-xorg-core [xorg-video-abi-18] 2:1.16.4-1 virtualbox-guest-x11 recommends no packages. virtualbox-guest-x11 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
Description: silence the guest additions X11 client When not running in VirtualBox, the guest additions X11 client shows a warning message via notify-send. This is unnecessary and scares users. Therefore we use a simple echo instead of notify-send. Author: Ronny Standtke <ronny.stand...@gmx.net> --- --- virtualbox-5.0.6-dfsg.orig/src/VBox/Additions/x11/Installer/98vboxadd-xclient +++ virtualbox-5.0.6-dfsg/src/VBox/Additions/x11/Installer/98vboxadd-xclient @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ done if ! test -c /dev/vboxguest 2>/dev/null; then # Do not start if the kernel module is not present. - notify-send "VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running. Exiting." + echo "VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running. Exiting." elif test -z "${SSH_CONNECTION}"; then # This script can also be triggered by a connection over SSH, which is not # what we had in mind, so we do not start VBoxClient in that case. We do