Bug#614972: gdm3: can't login ("can't open display :0" in .xsession-errors)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2011-02-24 21:51:19 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 18:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre a écrit :
> > But the .Xauthority location change should have been documented and
> > announced!
> 
> Announced where?

In the README file or README.Debian if Debian specific, and in the
man page?

It should explicitly mention that the XAUTHORITY environment variable
is set to some non-default value (man pages have a section ENVIRONMENT
for that).

I also think that
  * there should be some file mentioning the main differences (in
    particular, those not very visible) between gdm and gdm3;
  * there should be a dialog box at first install time mentioning
    these differences.

> It’s already documented, in the user manual.

Which user manual?

/usr/share/doc/gdm3 contains only:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    68 2010-08-11 16:19:44 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8669 2010-08-11 19:49:39 NEWS.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   672 2010-08-11 16:19:44 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1694 2010-11-15 20:58:00 README.Debian
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22596 2011-01-24 22:56:44 changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   131 2010-08-11 16:19:44 changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2255 2010-03-25 21:07:18 copyright

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