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Re: [edlug] GDM lost it's sessions
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 22:21, Tim Day wrote:
> My Debian "testing" box got hit by this a couple of days ago after
> an upgrade, and started firing up in KDE mode all the time.
> Check out the gdm bugs on the Debian site and look at
> 241096, 241247, 241184 and the ones merged with them.
>
> In the meantime someone on #debian told me to
> put "exec gnome-session" in my (previously nonexistent) ~/.xsession
> and that got gnome back just fine. The gdm menu is still empty though.
> Presumably it will get fixed by some future upgrade when gdm and gnome
> agree on where to install stuff.
>
same happened here. i did find this:
update-alternatives --config x-session-manager
and select gnome. this sorted it.
debian is really cool. however, sometimes it's really obscure how you
set up things. i haven't found this documented anywhere.
ah well
hope this helps
cheers
magi
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