[7727] in testers
Re: My Athena session will not run.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Fri Sep 19 15:33:31 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:31:58 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Having tripped over my intuition of the situation, I tend to agree.
Is this behavior that should be confined to "workstation" or is it
appropriate for "standard" as well? Would this have the effect of
making the "logout" command work more universally in sessions?
-wdc
On Sep 19, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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.
>
>
