Fw: [debian-live-devel] xfce desktop needs some love
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
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:20:04 -0300
From: Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
To: debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
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
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