On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:22:47PM +0200, Frank Murphy wrote: > I saw that this bug had been marked fixed, so I went to try it out, but it > seemed not to be fixed. So I checked out the new scripts and the manpages, > and I think maybe it was my confusion about what was supposed to happen. > > It seems that if a program is specified as the startup program, no user > xsession will be run. Is that correct?
That's exactly correct. You can't exec both the user's X session script and something else. Exec is a land of no return. > If so, I'd like to suggest a change to the Xsession manpage. Instead of this > text: > > 3) Determine startup program. The X client to launch as the control- > ling process (the one that, upon exiting, causes the X server to exit > as well) is determined next. If the line "allow-user-xsession" is > present in Xsession.options, a user-specified session program or script > is used. If a program or failsafe argument was given and is allowed > (see above), it is used instead. > > Use something like this: > > 3) Determine startup program. The X client to launch as the control- > ling process (the one that, upon exiting, causes the X server to exit > as well) is determined next. If a program or failsafe argument was > given and is allowed (see above), it is used. Otherwise, if the > line "allow-user-xsession" is present in Xsession.options, a > user-specified session program or script is used. These two paragraphs mean the same thing, though I agree that you have changed the emphasis. -- G. Branden Robinson | The last Christian died on the Debian GNU/Linux | cross. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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