We don't ship gnome-session 49 yet.
---
From 078fbcde4147147d47b9facafba5de4a9db4abd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Achill Gilgenast <achill@achill.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:36:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Reapply "main: Notify gnome-session when we're ready"

This reverts commit d697bdceaefeae49ad0e03df7352884899c3e14a.

Signed-off-by: Achill Gilgenast <achill@achill.org>
---
 js/ui/main.js | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/js/ui/main.js b/js/ui/main.js
index 40898e15c23d..ae7a80527361 100644
--- a/js/ui/main.js
+++ b/js/ui/main.js
@@ -326,6 +326,7 @@ async function _initializeUI() {
     GLib.idle_add(GLib.PRIORITY_DEFAULT, () => {
         Shell.util_sd_notify();
         global.context.notify_ready();
+        _notifyGnomeSessionReady();
         return GLib.SOURCE_REMOVE;
     });
 
@@ -390,6 +391,20 @@ async function _initializeUI() {
     });
 }
 
+async function _notifyGnomeSessionReady() {
+    try {
+        let params = GLib.Variant.new('(ss)', ['org.gnome.Shell.desktop', '']);
+        await Gio.DBus.session.call(
+            'org.gnome.SessionManager',
+            '/org/gnome/SessionManager',
+            'org.gnome.SessionManager',
+            'RegisterClient', params, null,
+            Gio.DBusCallFlags.NONE, -1, null);
+    } catch (e) {
+        log(`Error notifying gnome-session that we're ready: ${e.message}`);
+    }
+}
+
 function _handleShowWelcomeScreen() {
     const lastShownVersion = global.settings.get_string(WELCOME_DIALOG_LAST_SHOWN_VERSION);
     if (Util.GNOMEversionCompare(WELCOME_DIALOG_LAST_TOUR_CHANGE, lastShownVersion) > 0) {
-- 
2.51.0

From ca32ea422d2b075406a78058a14b0898ddb87698 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Achill Gilgenast <achill@achill.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:36:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "data: Drop org.gnome.Shell.desktop"

This reverts commit f3911151da7b0e3c630011cb26bd85f719e531d2.

Signed-off-by: Achill Gilgenast <achill@achill.org>
---
 data/meson.build                                    | 13 ++++++++++++-
 ....in => org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.desktop.in.in} |  0
 ...n => org.gnome.Shell.PortalHelper.desktop.in.in} |  0
 data/org.gnome.Shell.desktop.in.in                  | 13 +++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 rename data/{org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.desktop.in => org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.desktop.in.in} (100%)
 rename data/{org.gnome.Shell.PortalHelper.desktop.in => org.gnome.Shell.PortalHelper.desktop.in.in} (100%)
 create mode 100644 data/org.gnome.Shell.desktop.in.in

diff --git a/data/meson.build b/data/meson.build
index cc7b5e2a1fe6..76a32ca59f1b 100644
--- a/data/meson.build
+++ b/data/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 data_builddir = meson.current_build_dir()
 
 desktop_files = [
+  'org.gnome.Shell.desktop',
   'org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.desktop',
 ]
 service_files = []
@@ -10,9 +11,19 @@ if have_portal_helper
   service_files += 'org.gnome.Shell.PortalHelper.service'
 endif
 
+desktopconf = configuration_data()
+# We substitute in bindir so it works as an autostart
+# file when built in a non-system prefix
+desktopconf.set('bindir', bindir)
+desktopconf.set('systemd_hidden', have_systemd ? 'true' : 'false')
+
 foreach desktop_file : desktop_files
   i18n.merge_file(
-    input: desktop_file + '.in',
+    input: configure_file(
+      input: desktop_file + '.in.in',
+      output: desktop_file + '.in',
+      configuration: desktopconf
+    ),
     output: desktop_file,
     po_dir: po_dir,
     install: true,
diff --git a/data/org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.desktop.in b/data/org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.desktop.in.in
similarity index 100%
rename from data/org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.desktop.in
rename to data/org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.desktop.in.in
diff --git a/data/org.gnome.Shell.PortalHelper.desktop.in b/data/org.gnome.Shell.PortalHelper.desktop.in.in
similarity index 100%
rename from data/org.gnome.Shell.PortalHelper.desktop.in
rename to data/org.gnome.Shell.PortalHelper.desktop.in.in
diff --git a/data/org.gnome.Shell.desktop.in.in b/data/org.gnome.Shell.desktop.in.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..59d1cd2fe924
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/org.gnome.Shell.desktop.in.in
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+[Desktop Entry]
+Type=Application
+Name=GNOME Shell
+Comment=Window management and application launching
+Exec=@bindir@/gnome-shell
+Categories=GNOME;GTK;Core;
+OnlyShowIn=GNOME;
+NoDisplay=true
+X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=DisplayServer
+X-GNOME-Provides=panel;windowmanager;
+X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true
+X-GNOME-AutoRestart=false
+X-GNOME-HiddenUnderSystemd=@systemd_hidden@
-- 
2.51.0