* Francis Russell <[email protected]> [100112 17:25]:
> I was wondering if there had been any more progress or thoughts about
> this issue?
Sorry. I'm not in a position to fix gdm.
What the debian menu calls "window managers" are things to be called to
get a running session (they are classically used by stand-alone window
managers to replace themself with something else, which then gives the
new session).
Thus everything registered with needs=wm needs to be able to start a
standalone session or it is broken.
If gdm does not offer a way to start those, that is a bug in gdm.
Claiming that putting window managers there would be wrong makes
no sense:
- users want to start such window managers without any
other session management
- something that does not start enough to be an useable session
does not belong in the Debian menu as then selecting that from
another window manager's menu would mean the user only has
a 'bare' window-managing-only window-manager.
(To workaround that bug, try installing menu-xdg, look at the files
it generates (in /var/lib/menu-xdg/xsessions/ I think) and copy the
files you miss to a directory where gdm looks for them).
I'd write something to that bug report in gdm, but the last message
is from Josselin Mouette, so I fear too much to get again only insults
and verbal abuses back.
Sorry,
Bernhard R. Link
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