Hard-coded X11 calls cause Unity 8 to fail to run on desktop

The unity8-desktop-session task is for tracking the workaround until the proper fix can land in appmenu-qt5.

This bug was fixed in the package unity8-desktop-session - 1.0.13+16.10.20160726.1-0ubuntu1

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unity8-desktop-session (1.0.13+16.10.20160726.1-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  [ Chris Townsend ]
  * Reduce the priority of the Unity 8 session so it is will not appear
    as the default in Ubuntu 16.10. (LP: #1603102)

  [ Stephen M. Webb ]
  * load /etc/profile.d in Unity 8 desktop session (LP: #1590439,
    #1606246)
  * recommend additional packages to be co-installed with the Unity 8
    Desktop Session (LP: #1579551, #1591366, #1591394)

 -- <email address hidden> (Stephen M. Webb) Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:32:01 +0000

Also affects Mir as mirrun contains the workaround of unsetting QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME. In future it would be nice if we didn't need that.

The task status still shows 'New' for 'appmenu-qt5 (Ubuntu)'. Is that right? No fix released yet?

Accepted appmenu-qt5 into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appmenu-qt5/0.3.0+16.04.20170216-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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This would appear to have been fixed in Zesty with the 0.3.0+17.04.20161124.2-0ubuntu1 upload. I don't know why that didn't close this bug.

This bug was fixed in the package appmenu-qt5 - 0.3.0+16.04.20170216-0ubuntu1

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appmenu-qt5 (0.3.0+16.04.20170216-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * IconCache: get the proper theme path based on the fact we're using a
    themed icon or not (LP: #1600136)
  * IconCache: use $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR as preferred place where to save
    icons
  * AppMenuPlatformMenuBar: Don't initialize X11 related functions in
    other environments (LP: #1606246)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@3v1n0.net> Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:57:56 +0000

The verification of the Stable Release Update for appmenu-qt5 has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

Syncing task from Mir.