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Re: My Athena session will not run.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Fri Sep 19 15:51:19 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:50:29 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Greg,
What you say clarifies some. I think we should decide if we're going
to support Athena xsession in more than one of the available sessions.
I think we need to offer sessions that make a real difference. Are
there significant groups of users who need these differences at login
time?
How can we deal with the ambiguity between "Last session" that really
means, last permanently established session config, excluding the two
failsafe choices"?
-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.
>
>
