Bug#527139: /etc/X11/Xsession: does not prevent X server reset during session setup

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

On 26 February 2011 00:03, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> (05/05/2009):
>> Running
>>
>> /etc/X11/Xsession
>>
>> does the X session setup and starts a session.
>>
>> However, it looks like the X server resets between merging ~/.Xresources
>> and starting the final application.
>
> still having this issue?

Any reason to think the X scripts have been updated to fix this issue?

>
> Anyway, wild guess, running a client, and the client's exiting makes X
> shut down?

No, it makes X reset.

>
>> the workaround is to start an application beforehand like
>>
>> xmag&
>> /etc/X11/Xsession
>
> The fix is likely to pass -noreset.

Which is not the default so Xsession should not assume that.

>
>> If I were to write/package another display manager I would likely
>> need the Xsession script to perform correctly in absence of any
>> other X client.
>
> Don't do that. Every time somebody writes/packages a DM, god kills a
> kitten.

Did not need to, somebody packaged nodm for me ;-)

Perhaps I could look what *that* does.

Thanks

Michal