Bug#247196: kdm: clarify documentation
On Monday 03 May 2004 21:35, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Package: kdm
> Version: 4:3.2.2-1
> Severity: wishlist
Hi Ross,
>
> 1) The current documentation makes several references to the xdm
> manpage, but users may not have xdm installed. For this and other
> reasons, a kdm manpage would be good (see also bug #193527).
Agreed. Care to write (parts) of it? That would be great.
>
> 2) README.Debian does indicate it is for xdm, but it would be helpful
> to have a few lines explaining how this translates to kdm. Among the
> interpretations that occurred to me were
> * kdm uses the same files
> * kdm uses files of the same name but in /etc/kde3 (seems to be the
> case)
> * kdm uses its own files with different names (e.g., starting with a
> k)
> README.gz did allow me to infer it was the second, but that's a bit
> obscure. Perhaps README.Debian could be removed?
I had a look at README.Debian and I agree to that the file is
more confusing that helpful and should be removed.
The only debian specific infos worth to note IMHO would be
how and where debian select what x display manager gets used,
because that really Debian specific.
Hmm, because default entries in Xserver use -tcp nolisten one can
also mention that 'Remote Session' in the kdm greeter menu
will not work.
> 3) README.Debian includes confusions and redundancies. It refers to
> "The above three files", but there only seemed to be one file
> (xdm-config) that had been mentioned (Xresources is a directory,
> though perhaps not outside of Debian. Even so, that's only two
> files). The phrase "See the X(1) manual page for more information
> about X resources" occurs twice, and the surrounding discussion is a
> bit repetitive in other ways.
>
> 4) README.gz has a discussion headed "The command FiFos" which doesn't
s/command/Command/ in README.gz so source string matches target string
(for tools with case sensitive search).
> quite indicate, from a user perspective, how to use them. I tried
> echo commands to the relevant files, and that seemed to work. While
> the cogniscenti may know that already, saying it explicitly would
> be useful.
Care to provide better description?
> The discussion seems to imply that the low level interface doesn't
> matter because there are higher level tools: ksmserver and kdesktop.
> I tried starting the former and it messed up my session so badly I had
> to kill it. I assume the latter is always running; I looked on my
> menus but didn't see anything that seemed related to this.
with reserve lines in Xservers your k-menu and kscreensaver should
have 'Start new session' menu entries and buttons, respectively.
Works fine here.
> I was specifically looking for how to start up a session that had been
> specified in Xservers with the "reserve" word. There seem to be other
> problems with that, which I reported in a previous bug. The point
> here is that while some of the functionality is accessible from the
> desktop (e.g., shutdown and restart), reserve and other functionality
> does not seem to be.
No. 'Start new session' exposes reserve command on the gui.
Achim
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.4.24advncdfs
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>
> Versions of packages kdm depends on:
> ii debconf 1.4.22 Debian configuration management sy
> ii kdebase-bin 4:3.2.2-1 KDE Base (binaries)
> ii kdelibs4 4:3.2.2-2 KDE core libraries
> ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-5 Library of functions for 2D graphi
> ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM
> ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-6 GCC support library
> ii libice6 4.3.0-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
> ii libpam-runtime 0.76-19 Runtime support for the PAM librar
> ii libpam0g 0.76-19 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
> ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-5 PNG library - runtime
> ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.3-2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
> ii libsm6 4.3.0-7 X Window System Session Management
> ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii libx11-6 4.3.0-7 X Window System protocol client li
> ii libxext6 4.3.0-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
> ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
> ii libxtst6 4.3.0-7 X Window System event recording an
> ii xbase-clients 4.3.0-7 miscellaneous X clients
> ii xlibs 4.3.0-7 X Window System client libraries m
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-5 compression library - runtime
>
> -- debconf information:
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> kdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
> * kdm/default_servers_nolisten_tcp:
> * kdm/default_servers_100dpi:
> * kdm/kdmrc:
> shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm
> * kdm/default_nolisten_udp:
> kdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/kdm
> kdm/oldconfig:
>
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