Re: GDM Suggestion

[Owen Taylor]

On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 00:08, Havoc Pennington wrote:

>  't remember the whole set of issues but I think it was basically
> so
>  that a) switchdesk would appear to do something (it only works if you
>  are using the "Default" gdm session which runs ~/.Xclients, so if you'd
>  chosen a session in gdm switchdesk would seem busted) and b) so that if
>  someone had run switchdesk historically they wouldn't get reverted to
>  the default desktop on upgrade.
>  
>  Part of the issue is that switchdesk works with startx and kdm, but I
>  don't think we should care about that anymore honestly. kdm could have
>  similar functionality, and in the startx case someone is using command
>  line already and can edit .Xclients. 
Nothing elaborate about the rational:

 - At that time we supported xdm, kdm, gdm, and startx
 - So we needed something like switchdesk
 - The combination of switchdesk and gdm choosing the session doesn't
   work correctly.

Regards,
						Owen