I dug around a little more (yes, Bryce, it took me quite some time because unlike you I don't believe in "shoot from the hip" but I like to fully understand something before making wrong claims five times in a row). Here is what it looks like.
This appears to be neither a RFE for xorg-server nor one for gdm, but one in the void between them (most certainly not bug 173837). It looks like "gdmflexiserver -n" is the command called to implement the "new login in a window". gdmflexiserver can use either xnest or xephyr to have X-in-a-window. gdm thus recommends, but does not strictly depend on xserver-xephyr and xnest. Because of that, the menu entry I was talking about here is still present, but disabled by default (bug 140530), It can be reenabled with "alacarte" (right click on the Applications menu and choose "Edit menu")* In essence, this bug report has very close ties to a number of other bugs. But, I don't think it fully is a dupe of either one of them. The correct solution IMHO would be as proposed in bug 140530 comment 4 to have a third package provide the menu entry (which can then be enabled by default) which depends on both xserver-xephyr and gdm. Anything else is a workable and maybe even more elegant fix, but not 100% correct. Since that proposal was already more or less rejected, I guess the chances of it becoming true are slim and thus the current status of wontfix probably accurately reflects the situation. To sum it up: jumping to conclusions prematurely does not help anyone. We all make mistakes, we should not make the same ones five times in a row. At least after the second time, start asking more questions until the problem is indeed fully understood. I hope that possibly my sermon above might help somebody in the future googling for where the heck is that "new login in a window" menu entry for xnest or xephyr. * Footnote: For me, there was the additional problem that there were some left-over files in ~/.local/share/applications of my main account which I needed to clean out before that hidden-by-default entry for "New login in window" would show up. -- xephyr should have a menu entry https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189579 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
