[7726] in testers
Re: My Athena session will not run.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Sep 19 14:03:10 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
Cc: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu, testers@mit.edu
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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:02:23 -0400
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On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 19:24 -0400, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> I currently have my .dmrc specifying "GNOME", because I intentionally want
> GNOME/Metacity and not ratpoison as my window manager on Debathena, at
> least until I work out some of the differences between Athena 9 and 10
> with my dotfiles.
I don't think it's having that effect. The differences between "Run
XClient script" (aka "default") and GNOME are:
1. GNOME will ignore your .xsession or .Xsession file; default will use
it in preference to gnome-session.
2. Default will run /usr/bin/x-session-manager which is a symlink
(via /etc/alternatives) to gnome-session; GNOME runs gnome-session
directly.
3. The Athena xsession wrapper currently only takes effect for default.
I'm thinking (3) is a misfeature and we should just run the Athena
xsession wrapper for all session types.
> We could perhaps have debathena-gdm-config edit
> /usr/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions/default.desktop to rename "Run Xclient
> script" to "Athena defaults and dotfiles" or "Use Athena customizations"
> or something. For me, Xclient isn't GNOME...
As much as "Run Xclient script" is a completely useless name, I don't
want to call that the "Athena" session. It's the system default
session.
