Bug#258062: openbox is not shown in gdm

[Xan]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-3
Severity: normal

I use gdm with fluxbox, xfce4 and openbox installed.
All another wm (fluxbox, xfce4, kde and gnome) are shown in gdm except
openbox.

So, I report the bug because it's not exactly equal to bug #247749
(which I think is related to this).

Because fluxbox and openbox belong to the same wm (derived from
blackbox), I strange this different behaviour.

I don't know if it's a debian specific bug or it's a gnome bug.

I think that it's a more important bug than a normal bug, because there
is no dm that works with all wm:
  - kdm does not work with xfce4 (see bug #241080) (but yes with
    openbox)
  - gdm does not work with openbox (but yes with xfce4)

So if we want to switch from openbox to xfce4, then we have to switch
from one dm to another. An annoying thing.

I hope that you fix this bug as soon as possible.
If I help in something, please send me a message to mail.
For the other hand, I would like to receive the information about the
progresss of this bug. Can you CC me?

Thanks in advance,
Xan.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=ca_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES@euro (ignored: LC_ALL set to ca_ES)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.57           Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                   1.4.29         Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                      1.10.22        Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  eterm [x-terminal-emulato 0.9.2-8        Enlightened Terminal Emulator
ii  fluxbox [x-window-manager 0.1.14-4       Highly configurable and low resour
ii  gksu                      1.2.0-2        graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session             2.6.2-1        The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termina 2.6.1-4        The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emula 4:3.2.2-1      KDE X terminal emulator
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-5       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-2        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                  2.4.16-1       Extended attribute shared library
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-4        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.2-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.2-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1-8        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1-3      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.1.1-3      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common       2.6.1.1-3      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgsf-1                  1.9.1-6        Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.3-3        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules            0.76-22        Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime            0.76-22        Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                  0.76-22        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.0-4        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2                2.7.2-2        SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1               1.14-1         SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System Session Management
ii  libwrap0                  7.6.dbs-4      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2                   2.6.10-3       GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-window-manage 1:2.8.1-3      A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  openbox [x-window-manager 3.2-4          Standards compliant, fast, light-w
ii  twm [x-window-manager]    4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Tab window manager
ii  xbase-clients             4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 miscellaneous X clients
ii  xfwm4 [x-window-manager]  4.0.5-1        window manager of the XFce project
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System client libraries m
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulato 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-3    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm