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Re: xdm should use update-alternatives



On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 05:07:20PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:19:00AM +0200, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > On Sunday 05 October 2003 09:51, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:18:37AM +0200, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > > > how about making the xdm package use update-alternatives so one can
> > > > change the default x-session-manager (which is also used e.g. by kdm)
> > > > with
> > > > update-alternatives --config x-session-manager. Don't have time to do
> > > > that myself here and now but I'd consider it a a bug if it wouldn't use
> > > > update-alternatives anyway.
> > >
> > > Err, dpkg-reconfigure -plow xdm, works reasonably well.
> > So, why's there an alternatives for x-session-manager if the standard one 
> > doesn't support that function ? :-) I fell over this when KDM in HEAD was 
> > broken and I wanted to switch to xdm easily.
> 
> I don't understand what you're talking about.
> 
> 1) A display manager is not a session manager.

I lose.

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Daniel Stone                                              <daniel@fooishbar.org>
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