Bug#247749: marked as done (gdm only shows KDE and GNOME as
options (with fluxbox, xfce4.. installed))
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From: Guaka <guaka@303.nu>
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Subject: gdm only shows KDE and GNOME as options (with fluxbox, xfce4.. installed)
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Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-1
Severity: normal
For Session I can only choose System standard, KDE, GNOME, failsafe
terminal and failsafe GNOME. I do have other things installed, such as
fluxbox, twm, and xfce4...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (60, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5
Locale: LANG=nl, LC_CTYPE=nl
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.52 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.4.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.20 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii fluxbox [x-window-m 0.1.14-3 Highly configurable and low resour
ii gnome-session 2.4.2-5 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-t 2.4.2-7 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii icewm [x-window-man 1.2.13+CVS20040321-1 A wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like
ii konsole [x-terminal 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 1.4.1-1 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.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.4.0.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.0.1-13 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.2.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.4.0-11 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.4.0-3 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.4.0.1-12 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 0.76-19 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.76-19 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.76-19 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.2.5-4 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.dbs-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 2.6.9-1 GNOME XML library
ii metacity [x-window- 1:2.6.5-1 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii rxvt-beta [x-termin 2.7.10-0.1 VT102 terminal emulator for the X
ii twm [x-window-manag 4.3.0-7 Tab window manager
ii xfwm4 [x-window-man 4.0.3.1-2 window manager of the XFce project
ii xlibs 4.3.0-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii xterm [x-terminal-e 4.3.0-7 X terminal emulator
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-5 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "nl",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "nl"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm
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From: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
To: Guaka <guaka@303.nu>, 247749-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#247749: gdm only shows KDE and GNOME as options (with fluxbox, xfce4.. installed)
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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:41:55PM +0200, Guaka wrote:
> For Session I can only choose System standard, KDE, GNOME, failsafe
> terminal and failsafe GNOME. I do have other things installed, such as
> fluxbox, twm, and xfce4...
It is up to the manager packages that want to be listed to add a desktop
file in /usr/share/xsessions describing the (window|session) manager, and
how to start it. GDM will then use the commands provided by the maintainers
to start the manager when the packages with them are installed.
--
Ryan Murray, Debian Developer (rmurray@cyberhqz.com, rmurray@debian.org)
The opinions expressed here are my own.