Bug#601235: live-config: 012-xinit script clash with display manager

["David A. Bandel" <david@pananix.com>]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:28, Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> wrote:
> severity 601235 normal
> retitle 601235 xinit clashes with displaymanagers when using persistency
> thanks
>
> On 10/24/2010 04:03 PM, David A. Bandel wrote:
>> suggest changing to:
>>
>> if [ -s /etc/X11/default-display-manager ]
>> then
>>       if [ ! "$(pidof $(cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager)" ]
>>               then
>>                       startx
>>       fi
>>       else
>>                       startx
>> fi
>
> that doesn't account for those display managers that are, unfortunately,
> not using /etc/X11/default-display-manager, such as slim.
>

OK.  Not one I was familiar with.  Any others?  Clearly, testing for
$DISPLAY on tty1 doesn't work when X is running on tty7.

Guess the test could just be for pidof /usr/bin/X

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