Re: [edlug] GDM lost it's sessions

[Justin B Rye <edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

> 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.

For me on the other hand gdm is finally reaching the stage where it
works properly, delegating decisions to my configured system
defaults instead of insisting that if I don't want everything
Gnomified I must want to go via xsm and twm (or some such piece of
hard-coded rudeness).  At last it's beginning to look halfway
debianised... 

Magnus Hagdorn wrote:
> same happened here. i did find this:
> update-alternatives --config x-session-manager
> and select gnome. this sorted it.

I already had that set to "none".   I've never seen the need for an
x-session-manager layer between my x-display-manager and
x-window-manager. 

> debian is really cool. however, sometimes it's really obscure how you
> set up things. i haven't found this documented anywhere.

The problem with Debian's volunteerism is that people who notice
this shortage of documentation tend to try to fix it themselves by
coming up with a half-baked Personal Guide To Debian, then leaving
that hidden somewhere on the web to rot when they discover how much
work is involved.  Instead it should all go in the Debian Reference:
"http://www.uk.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html#s-alternatives";
So bug "http://bugs.debian.org/debian-reference";!
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JBR
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