Bug#270466: marked as done (gdm: not all sessions show up in the gui)

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From: Wouter Van Hemel <wouter-debian@fort-knox.rave.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gdm: not all sessions show up in the gui
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Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.4-1
Severity: normal
Tags: sid

Hello,

My /etc/gdm/Sessions shows a session file for Enlightenment:

total 14
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   34 May  2  2003 Debian
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 3087 Aug  7  2003 Enlightenment
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 3089 Apr  2 06:42 Gnome
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1012 Jul 17  2003 KDE
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 3859 May  2  2003 Xsession

.... but there is no Enlightenment in the GUI session menu. In fact, there is 
no way to start Enlightenment from the GUI without messing around with xsession 
files and such.

Why doesn't Enlightenment show up in the GUI Session menu?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE@euro

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.59           Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                   1.4.34         Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                      1.10.23        Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  enlightenment [x-window-m 1:0.16.6-3     The Enlightenment Window Manager
ii  gksu                      1.2.1-1        graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session             2.6.2-5        The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termina 2.6.1-6        The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-3        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                  2.4.16-1       Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-4        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-6        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.2-1        A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcroco3                 0.6.0-2        a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii  libesd0                   0.2.34-1       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.4-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11               1.2.0-6        LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.6-2        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0         0.2.1-3        GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1.2-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1-4      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.2-2        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11               1.0.16-7       GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0             1.0-1          library for common error values an
ii  libgsf-1                  1.10.1-1       Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.9-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-9           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
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             1.4.1-2        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2                2.7.2-5        SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1               1.16-2         SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2                0.2.10-4       Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libwrap0                  7.6.dbs-6      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-3       GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-window-manage 1:2.8.1-4      A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  twm [x-window-manager]    4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 Tab window manager
ii  xbase-clients             4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulato 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-7    compression library - runtime

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

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 08:53:12 -0700
From: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
To: Wouter Van Hemel <wouter-debian@fort-knox.rave.org>,
	270466-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#270466: gdm: not all sessions show up in the gui
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:23:03PM +0200, Wouter Van Hemel wrote:
> My /etc/gdm/Sessions shows a session file for Enlightenment:
>=20
> total 14
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   34 May  2  2003 Debian
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 3087 Aug  7  2003 Enlightenment
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 3089 Apr  2 06:42 Gnome
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1012 Jul 17  2003 KDE
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 3859 May  2  2003 Xsession

/etc/gdm/Sessions is a directory used by gdm < 2.4 in Debian.  It isn't used
by the current version.

> .... but there is no Enlightenment in the GUI session menu. In fact, ther=
e is=20
> no way to start Enlightenment from the GUI without messing around with xs=
ession=20
> files and such.

File a bug on enlightenment to include a /usr/share/xsessions/enlightenment=
.desktop
file so that gdm, kdm, and others know how to start it, and it'll appear in
the sessions menu if installed.

--=20
Ryan Murray, Debian Developer (rmurray@cyberhqz.com, rmurray@debian.org)
The opinions expressed here are my own.

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