Re: xfce desktop needs some love

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:20:04 -0300
Ben Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

Oh, unobservant me!  The /usr/share/live-helper/lists/xfce and xfce-junior
both listed packages in this order:

gdm xfce4

Order matters!  The dependency on a x-session-manager (which *is* in the
list of dependency alternatives, something I overlooked) was not satisfied,
forcing the inclusion of gnome-session.  I have now reversed them and
committed the change in svn:

xfce4 gdm

This pulls in xfce4-session first, so when gdm is installed, the dependency
is already satisfied and all is well.

But to the debian-jr people, to whom I appealed for help on this, I'd still
appreciate help giving xfce a more thorough test, as to date my focus has
been on gnome, and to a lesser extent, kde.

Ben
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