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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: gdm fails to communicate with KDE
- From: Shai Berger <shai@platonix.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:53:37 +0200
- Message-id: <20071016195337.21080.16235.reportbug@deblack.local>
Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.0-2
Severity: normal
I usually use KDE, but stuck with GDM because I liked it
better than KDM at some point. However, since the last
upgrade (I think), my KDE sessions under GDM no longer
include the "switch user" submenu in the K menu, and
kscreensaver fails to offer the Switch User button.
Switching to KDM fixed the problem, but I only consider
this a workaround.
I'm not sure if the problem is in GDM or KDE, but as
I said, I think it showed up after the last update to
many GNOME packages.
In an attempt to help debug the problem, I opened
a GNOME session, and tried to switch user from there.
To my surprise, I received a message telling me that
switching users (from GNOME) only works under GDM.
So -- has someone broken the display-manager/desktop
interoperability between GNOME and KDE on purpose?
Thanks,
Shai.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy
ii gksu 2.0.0-4 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session 2.20.0-1 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-termi 2.18.2-1 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii konsole [x-terminal-emu 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-1 X terminal emulator for KDE
ii kwin [x-window-manager] 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-1 the KDE window manager
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.19-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 1:2.4.39-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdmx1 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.1-5 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.0-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpam-modules 0.99.7.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.99.7.1-5 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.2-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii librsvg2-2 2.18.2-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii librsvg2-common 2.18.2-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 2.0.15-2+b1 SELinux shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-14 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 authorisation library
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.3.2-1+b1 X11 Composite extension library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.1-3 X11 damaged region extension libra
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.30.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii metacity [x-window-mana 1:2.20.0-1 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii mlterm [x-terminal-emul 2.9.3-6+b1 MultiLingual TERMinal
ii twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.3-2 Tab window manager
ii xbase-clients 1:7.2.ds2-2 miscellaneous X clients
ii xterm [x-terminal-emula 229-1 X terminal emulator
Versions of packages gdm recommends:
pn gdm-themes <none> (no description available)
ii whiptail 0.52.2-11.1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12 Next Generation Nested X Server
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.2-5 the X.Org X server
ii zenity 2.20.0-2 Display graphical dialog boxes fro
-- debconf information:
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm
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