Bug#236520: marked as done (kdm: cannot start 'custom' session with $HOME/.xsession)
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From: "Philipp E. Imhof" <fippu@fippu.ch>
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Subject: kdm: cannot start 'custom' session with $HOME/.xsession
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 19:14:40 +0100
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Package: kdm
Version: 3.2.1-1
When choosing 'KDE' as session type in kdm, the .xsession
script will not be executed (I did not have my key mappigns
anymore and the euro sign did not either). Choosing 'Custom'
always put me back to the kdm welcome screen.
I changed /etc/X11/Xsession.d/20xfree86-common_process-args by
adding the following code at line 24:
---
custom)
if grep -qs ^allow-user-xsession "$OPTIONFILE"; then
if [ -x "$USERXSESSION" ]; then
exec "$USERXSESSION"
elif [ -x "$ALTUSERXSESSION" ]; then
exec "$ALTUSERXSESSION"
else
errormsg "unable to launch custom X session ---" \
"neither $USERXSESSION nor $ALTUSERXSESSION" \
"can be executed; aborting."
fi
else
errormsg "unable to launch custom X session ---" \
"allow-user-xsession is set to false; aborting."
fi
;;
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Maybe this report does not really consider the kdm package. I
filed it here, because the problem did not exist with old kdm.
Wish you a nice weekend.
Philipp Imhof
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From: Christopher Martin <christopher.martin@utoronto.ca>
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Subject: Re: kdm: cannot start 'custom' session with $HOME/.xsession
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On May 29, 2004 12:48, Christopher Martin wrote:
> > When choosing 'KDE' as session type in kdm, the .xsession
> > script will not be executed (I did not have my key mappigns
> > anymore and the euro sign did not either). Choosing 'Custom'
> > always put me back to the kdm welcome screen.
>
> If you want your ~/.xsession used, try the "Default" session type.
> Debian doesn't use the .xsession file normally, so if you want to use
> .xsession and KDE together, just add "startkde" to your .xsession file.
>
> As for the problems noted with the "Custom" session type, I've filed a
> separate report for that (251602).
>
> This report can probably be closed, but I'll wait a while in case
> anyone has anything to add.
Closing, since no further comments were received.
Thanks,
Christopher Martin
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