Bug#348501: /usr/bin/startkde: No manpage for startkde, problems with x-session-manager/update-alternatives

[Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at>]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 18:36, Christopher Martin wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 January 2006 06:16, Philipp Grau wrote:
> > Package: ksmserver
> > Version: 4:3.3.2-1sarge1
> > Severity: minor
> > File: /usr/bin/startkde
> > Tags: patch
> >
> > I am setting startkde to my default x-session-manager:
> >
> > update-alternatives --set x-session-manager /usr/bin/startkde
> >
> > then /etc/cron.daily/man-db exposes the following waring:
> >
> > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-session-manager.1.gz is a dangling
> > symlink
> >
> > this is because startkde has no manpage. gnome-session and xfce4-session
> > provide a manpage that is registered as a slave in /etc/alternatives. So
> > when I do update-alternatives to startkde the link for the manpage is
> > broken. I have written a small manpage for startkde (which is based on
> > xfce4-session(1) and the contents of startkde), and included a small
> > patch for ksmserver.postinst.
>
> Looks good, thanks. This will be in the next upload.

Depending on how x-session-manager is defined it could be slightly inaccurate.

For example:
"It will load your last session or a default session
that includes the standard KDE programs if no saved session is available."

startkde does not do this, ksmserver does

"BstartkdeP is an standard X11R6 session manager that can manage
any X11R6 SM compliant program."

startkde is just a script, ksmserver is the X11 XM compliant session manager.

Cheers,
Kevin