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Bug#846222: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#846222: x11-common: Please provide a default xsession in /usr/share/xsessions



On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 11:52 +0100, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks to the #845948 report against sddm, we noticed that the "Default 
> Xsession" xsession desktop file is being provided by the lightdm display 
> manager (in the /usr/share/xsessions/lightdm-xsession.desktop file). And since: 
> 
>  - This xsession file is useful for other display managers, such as sddm, that
>    uses the /usr/share/xsessions/*.desktop to allow the users to choose their
>    preferred sessions.
> 
>  - This ends up calling /etc/X11/Xsession default which is the only way to use
>    the user's ~/.xsession file
> 
>  - The script that processes the "default" parameter
>    (/etc/X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args) as a special case is
>    provided by the x11-common package.
> 
> I believe, it would be better to this file in the x11-common package (renamed 
> as
> /usr/share/xsessions/user-xsession.desktop or 
> /usr/share/xsessions/default-xsession.desktop).

If other DM have the same behavior as LightDM, I guess it's a good idea
indeed, although I'm wondering if it can have side effects.

In any case, keep me in the loop so I can remove the file from LightDM when
needed :)

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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