Fw: [debian-live-devel] xfce desktop needs some love
Ben Armstrong <[email protected]>
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Anyone want to help with this? I really don't know xfce. Andreas? This seems to me to be a bug in gdm, but I'd like some discussion/ confirmation of my diagnosis before filing. Ben Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:20:04 -0300 From: Ben Armstrong <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: xfce desktop needs some love Using the xfce-junior package list (which is just xfce plus some extra packages) installs gnome-session (a dependency of gdm), which apparently has a higher priority in the alternatives system than xfce4-session as a x-session-manager. As a result, gdm ends up starting gnome-session with xfwm4. Because the rest of GNOME wasn't installed, there are no windows, no panels, no menus ... essentially all the user sees is a desktop background and no amount of clicking will make anything happen. Somehow we need to ensure this doesn't happen. Obviously we could force xfce4-session to be chosen by overriding it with a direct call to update-alternatives somewhere, but this isn't really a debian-live- specific issue. How would we solve this for non-debian-live users who want to use gdm + xfce4-session? Isn't this a bug in /etc/gdm/Xsession? Shouldn't it prefer xfce4-session over gnome-session if x-window-manager is xfwm4 instead of just running x-session-manager? Ben -- ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [email protected] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [email protected] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] _______________________________________________ Debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel -- -- ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [email protected] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [email protected] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ]