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[Debathena] #1112: reset nondefault session choice
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#1112: reset nondefault session choice
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Reporter: geofft | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: The Distant Future
Component: -- | Keywords:
Upstream bug: |
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Too often I find people who log in to an Athena workstation (either
cluster or workstation) and don't notice that they're logging in to
XMonad, which pops up no windows by default, displays no chrome, and
responds to no keybindings that any sane, imperative person will think of,
so they end up thinking the computer doesn't work. I think this is two
related bugs:
* If you once log in with an odd window manager / session, it shouldn't
get set as the default, even on that machine, without explicit
confirmation.
* If an odd window manager / session is selected, it should revert to the
default after some time, certainly at least by the point the screen saver
comes up.
Note that I think part of this may be moot in Natty's gdm but not Lucid's,
and also that [#995 LightDM needs to be dealt with] and I don't know how
it behaves here.
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Ticket URL: <https://athena10.mit.edu/trac/ticket/1112>
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