Bug#681244: gdm3: Should have a "use ~/.xsession" option

Matthew Vernon matthewv+sacbugs at coriolis.greenend.org.uk
Thu Jul 12 00:04:41 UTC 2012


Hi,

On 12/07/12 00:49, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 11.07.2012 18:55, Matthew Vernon wrote:
>> gdm3 should ship a .desktop file that runs the users ~/.xsession ;
>> lightdm does, and the file they provide (contents reproduced below)
>> would be just fine.
>
> Why is
> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40x11-common_xsessionrc
> not sufficient?

It doesn't result in  session-type menu entry in gdm3, whereas adding a 
.desktop file in the manner I suggested in my bug report does.

Regards,

Matthew





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