False alarms from mintreport-tray

[morciej]

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.