Re: [Branch ~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ldm-trunk] Rev 911: use Xsession script when session is selected, defaulting to "default" if no

Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> On Mi, 2008-09-24 at 12:11 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
>> You should recall that we can't do this because [ -x /path/to/foo ] is 
>> impossible.  LDM needs to loop through the Xsession list through 
>> multiple round-trips through the ssh tunnel.  This sucks, but at least 
>> it is only a fallback if not otherwise specified in lts.conf or the 
>> previously proposed ldminfod.
> it should be available and executable on the client (it is in the
> default xorg install in debian and ubuntu at least) ... as long as both
> are the same distro it will work fine, if not you can seed an lts.conf
> value and indeed ldminfod is preferred but its not sending that info
> yet ... in case it does, it will be only one additional line to the
> current code.

You're missing the point.

[ -x /path/to/foo ] fails because LDM is running on the client, while 
you need the path of Xsession on the server.  The client's own Xsession 
path is irrelevant here.

Warren

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