[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#846222: x11-common: Please provide a default xsession in /usr/share/xsessions

[Michael Biebl]

Am 06.11.2017 um 00:32 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:07:26 +0100 Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>

>> If other DM have the same behavior as LightDM, I guess it's a good idea
>> indeed, although I'm wondering if it can have side effects.

[..]

> I would prefer though, if that xsession.desktop file is *not* provided
> by x11-common, as some desktop environments might actually choose not
> wanting to have such an entry in the display manager menu, and
> x11-common is not really uninstallable.
> So a separate binary package seems like the most flexible approach to me.
> 
> lightdm's /usr/share/xsessions/lightdm-xsession.desktop file might be a
> good basis for such a package.

Another reason why it might be a good idea to ship that as a package
separate from x11-common is, that as you mentioned, not all display
manager might support that ExecStart=default feature.
Only those that do could decide to add a Recommend or Depends on that
new xsession-default package.

If there is some agreement on this, I could prepare a patch for src:xorg
which adds such a new xsession-default package. I think src:xorg would
be the right source package for building such a package.


Michael


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