On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:19:00AM +0200, Ralf Nolden wrote: > On Sunday 05 October 2003 09:51, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:18:37AM +0200, Ralf Nolden wrote: > > > how about making the xdm package use update-alternatives so one can > > > change the default x-session-manager (which is also used e.g. by kdm) > > > with > > > update-alternatives --config x-session-manager. Don't have time to do > > > that myself here and now but I'd consider it a a bug if it wouldn't use > > > update-alternatives anyway. > > > > Err, dpkg-reconfigure -plow xdm, works reasonably well. > So, why's there an alternatives for x-session-manager if the standard one > doesn't support that function ? :-) I fell over this when KDM in HEAD was > broken and I wanted to switch to xdm easily.
I don't understand what you're talking about. 1) A display manager is not a session manager. 2) update-alternatives is used to register, deregister, list, and select among alternatives. 3) From 1) and 2), we can conclude that no package which is not a session manager should be invoking update-alternatives on the x-session-manager alternative. 4) The default Debian X session scripts use the command x-session-manager as the controlling process of the session, if that command is available. See Xsession(5). 5) The xdm package uses the default Debian X session scripts by default when starting an X session. 6) Some other display managers in Debian don't use the default Debian X session scripts by default when starting an X session. I think this is a bug, but the maintainers of those display manager packages may disagree. To which of the above premises do you object? -- G. Branden Robinson | Eternal vigilance is the price of Debian GNU/Linux | liberty. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Wendell Phillips http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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