Bug#243463: gdm: take the right to get to GNOME session after
upgrade, and consider that behavior as an user default choice
Mathieu Roy
Mathieu Roy <yeupou@coleumes.org>, 243463-maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:53:26 +0200
Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-1
Severity: minor
After upgrade gdm selected by default for every users on this computer
"GNOME" session.
The sad thing is the fact they all use the default X session.
I assume that gdm lost the user settings during the upgrade.
1. Why the hell when it loose settings does it have to choose GNOME
instead of the most basic session on GNU/Linux, say X session?
I can vaguely understand the rationale behind: well, after all, it
is the GNOME Desktop Manage. But the fact is that only one DM can
be running on a computer: so it is not possible to consider that
using GDM means have GNOME as default choice. GNOME can even not be
installed.
I suggest that you make the X session, something that should work
with or without GNOME, the default.
2. Why the hell when it loose settings does it have to consider that
its guess is "the default" choice for the user, and, as result,
prompt the user if, when he select something else, he really want
to change his default setting -- while it is only gdm that change
this setting in first place?
If gdm forgot a user setting, it should just consider this user
never logged in with gdm.
Thanks,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.52 Add and remove users and groups
ii aterm [x-terminal-emulator] 0.4.2-10 Afterstep XVT - a VT102 emulator f
ii blackbox [x-window-manager] 0.65.0-1.2 Window manager for X
ii debconf 1.4.21 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.20 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii gnome-session 2.4.2-4 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii konsole [x-terminal-emulato 4:3.1.5-2 KDE X terminal emulator
ii kterm [x-terminal-emulator] 6.2.0-43 Multi-lingual terminal emulator fo
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.4.1-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.4.3-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.4.3-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.4.0.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 2.0.1-6 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.2.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.4.0-9 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.4.0-3 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.4.0.1-10 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.4.1-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnomevfs2-common 2.4.1-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgsf-1 1.8.2-6 Structured File Library - runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.2.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit2 1:2.8.3-2 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpam-modules 0.76-16 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.76-16 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.76-16 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.2.5-2.1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii librsvg2-2 2.5.0-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libsm6 4.3.0-7 X Window System Session Management
ii libwrap0 7.6-ipv6.1-3 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 4.3.0-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxml2 2.6.7-1 GNOME XML library
ii wmaker [x-window-manager] 0.80.1-8 NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
ii xfce [x-window-manager] 3.8.18-2 The Cholesterol Free Desktop Envir
ii xlibs 4.3.0-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 4.3.0-7 X terminal emulator
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-5 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm
--
Mathieu Roy
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