Bug#348120: marked as done (kdm does not list available window managers in menu list)
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From: Curt Howland <howland@priss.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: kdm does not list available window managers in menu list
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Package: kdm
Version: 4:3.5.0-4
Severity: normal
kdm used to list twm, olwm, and other installed window managers a couple
years ago when I first installed kdm, I do not remember which Debian
release it was. I
recently installed Sarge, and updated to Sid. olwm and twm have been
installed the entire time, but never showed up in the menu in kdm.
I put in a wish-list bug with olwm,
that I had to create a file for olwm (and twm) by hand in
/usr/share/xsessions,
===
> When did olwm stop creating the file?
It never did. As I said, olwm registers the x-window-manager alternative
which can be used easily to generate a list of all installed window
managers. I guess there is some application that did exactly that and
now
no longer does it. But I don't have the slightest idea about which one
that
could be.
Martin
===
Maybe someone could forward this bug to whatever
maintainer/package/committee it is that decides if it is a core X issue,
a kdm issue, or the responsibility of the individual window manager to
write a file into /usr/share/xsessions. Whatever it is, I think it
would be greatly appreciated, if the comments I and others on the user
list have made are any indication.
Curt-
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages kdm depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.67 Debian configuration management sy
ii kdebase-bin 4:3.5.0-4 core binaries for the KDE base mod
ii kdebase-data 4:3.5.0-4 shared data files for the KDE base
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.0-3 core libraries for all KDE applica
ii libc6 2.3.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-6 GCC support library
ii libpam-runtime 0.79-3 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.5-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxau6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Authentication library
ii libxdmcp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Display Manager Control Protocol
ii libxtst6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System event recording an
ii xbase-clients 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 miscellaneous X clients
Versions of packages kdm recommends:
ii logrotate 3.7.1-2 Log rotation utility
-- debconf information:
kdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
* shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm
kdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/kdm
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From: Christopher Martin <chrsmrtn@debian.org>
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To: Curt Howland <howland@priss.com>,
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Subject: Re: Bug#348120: kdm does not list available window managers in menu list
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On Saturday 14 January 2006 19:16, Curt Howland wrote:
> Package: kdm
> Version: 4:3.5.0-4
> Severity: normal
>
>
> kdm used to list twm, olwm, and other installed window managers a couple
> years ago when I first installed kdm, I do not remember which Debian
> release it was.
Sarge's /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc had a bug where is doesn't always list third
party window managers. This was fixed for 3.4, however, so if you ensure
that you're using a more recent kdmrc (purge and reinstall kdm), then you
should find that things work. Note that kdm doesn't ship .desktop files for
window managers that provide their own .desktop files for kdm/gdm
in /usr/share/xsessions. twm and olwm don't include their own, however, so
kdm still ships ones for them (in /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions), so again,
an updated kdmrc _should_ cause kdm to 'find' those window managers again
and list them conveniently.
Let me know if you need further assistance or my suggestions don't work.
Cheers,
Christopher Martin
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