Bug#687032: gdm3: Please mention that the fallback mode of GDM3 is used

[Paul Menzel]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.4.1-2
Severity: important

Dear Debian folks,


dealing with upstream bug 679132 [1], I was told that by default GDM 3
should start using GNOME Shell and that `gdm-simple-slave` is supposed
to be the fallback mode when the system does not support the required
graphics features.

Could you please clarify in the package description that this is the
case and give instructions on how to let GDM 3 use GNOME Shell? That
would be awesome!


Thanks,

Paul


[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679132#c8

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                             0.6.21-6
ii  adduser                                     3.113+nmu3
ii  awesome [x-window-manager]                  3.4.13-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                     0.12.1-2
ii  dconf-tools                                 0.12.1-2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                       1.5.46
ii  dpkg                                        1.16.8
ii  gir1.2-freedesktop                          1.32.1-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                             1.32.1-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]           3.4.2.1-2
ii  gnome-session-bin                           3.4.2.1-2
ii  gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager]  3.4.2.1-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                       3.4.2-5
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        3.4.1.1-1+build1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                   3.4.2-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                         0.6.21-6
ii  libatk1.0-0                                 2.4.0-2
ii  libattr1                                    1:2.4.46-8
ii  libaudit0                                   1:1.7.18-1.1
ii  libc6                                       2.13-35
ii  libcairo-gobject2                           1.12.2-2
ii  libcairo2                                   1.12.2-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                          0.28-4
ii  libcanberra0                                0.28-4
ii  libdbus-1-3                                 1.6.2-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                            0.100-1
ii  libfontconfig1                              2.9.0-7
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                          2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                2.32.3-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                              2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                  3.4.2-3
ii  libpam-modules                              1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpam-runtime                              1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpam0g                                    1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpango1.0-0                               1.30.0-1
ii  librsvg2-common                             2.36.1-1
ii  libselinux1                                 2.1.9-5
ii  libupower-glib1                             0.9.17-1
ii  libwrap0                                    7.6.q-24
ii  libx11-6                                    2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxau6                                     1:1.0.7-1
ii  libxdmcp6                                   1:1.1.1-1
ii  libxklavier16                               5.2.1-1
ii  libxrandr2                                  2:1.3.2-2
ii  lsb-base                                    4.1+Debian7
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                 1:2.34.3-3
ii  policykit-1-gnome                           0.105-2
ii  upower                                      0.9.17-1
ii  x11-common                                  1:7.7+1
ii  x11-xserver-utils                           7.7~3
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                 278-2

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  desktop-base             7.0.3
ii  gnome-icon-theme         3.4.0-2
ii  libatk-adaptor [at-spi]  2.5.3-1
ii  x11-xkb-utils            7.7~1
ii  xserver-xephyr           2:1.12.3.902-1
ii  xserver-xorg             1:7.7+1
ii  zenity                   3.4.0-2

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-mag             1:0.16.3-1
ii  gnome-orca            3.4.2-2
ii  gnome-shell           3.4.2-1
ii  gok                   2.30.0-1
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.4.1-5

-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
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