Manjaro-app-folder-settings & manjaro-starter - missing TryExec binary

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I’m currently cleaning up a couple of warnings in the journal and came across these two:

… gnome-session-binary[14211]: WARNING: Desktop file /home/user/.config/autostart/manjaro-app-folder-settings.desktop for application manjaro-app-folder-settings.desktop could not be parsed or references a missing TryExec binary
… gnome-session-binary[14211]: WARNING: Desktop file /home/user/.config/autostart/manjaro-starter.desktop for application manjaro-starter.desktop could not be parsed or references a missing TryExec binary

Both of these try to run binaries which can’t be found on my system:

Exec=manjaro-starter
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Exec=/usr/bin/apply-folder-settings

Manjaro-starter has been discontinued it seems.

pacman -F says that manjaro-app-folder-settings.desktop belongs to manjaro-settings:

pacman -F manjaro-app-folder-settings.desktop
extra/manjaro-gnome-settings 20250504-1 [Installiert]
    etc/skel/.config/autostart/manjaro-app-folder-settings.desktop

Can I simply delete these two .desktop files from ~/.config/autostart? Both of them are also listed in /etc/skel/.config/autostart/ which would mean every newly created user on my system would get them as well.

Is manjaro-gnome-settings maybe outdated? I checked its gitlab PKGBUILD and noticed it might even be responsible for the gdm dconf-profile generating dozens of warning messages (which I fixed recently on my system).

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install -Dm644 dconf/gdm -t "${pkgdir}"/etc/dconf/profile/
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Yes. You can also remove ~/.config/autostart/msm_notifier.desktop and ~/.local/share/gnome-background-properties/gnome-backgrounds.xml.

I’ve removed the aforementioned with manjaro-gnome-settings 20250921-1.

EDIT: Fixed typo

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Thanks. I’ve removed the two files successfully. :slight_smile:

I guess it’s just a copy&paste error and you meant manjaro-gnome-settings :wink:

By the way, I noticed the new update keeps rewriting the faulty ‘gdm’ dconf profile which is listing those missing ‘gdm’, ‘site’ & ‘distro’ databases. Unfortunately this comes with a lot of warning messages in the system journal.

/etc/dconf/profile/gdm 
user-db:user
system-db:gdm
system-db:local
system-db:site
system-db:distro

Is there anything I can do, to prevent it rewritten every time manjaro-gnome-settings is updated? I keep deleting the ‘gdm’ profile but is it maybe better to just edit the file and remove those missing system-db? Will updating overwrite an existing ‘gdm’ dconf profile?

Tbh, I don’t know why those required system-db (gdm, site, distro) are missing on my installation. I have never meddled with dconf in the past or removed any system-db voluntarily.

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