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Re: GDM update!
From: |
Timothy Sample |
Subject: |
Re: GDM update! |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:31:12 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Danny,
Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Ludo,
>
> https://github.com/GNOME/gdm/commit/0bb8a777cfc0a3bc53c2c2830dd7e6e2baeeef38#diff-9b802b1ffb5f0ff95bfaa85046d262e7
> says:
>
>>custom is a magic name we used to allow for having the user decide
>> their session by a ~/.xsession file. We no longer support that
>> construct and haven't for many years. Instead, users who want that
>> functionality can just add a xsession file to accomplish it.
>>This commit just removes some left over cruft that never got cleaned up.
>
> [...]
Thanks! I didn’t see this before writing my other message, but it
explains why the comments and code don’t match.
Maybe the GDM folks expect that we write a custom “.desktop” file that
runs a custom script that checks for “~/.xsession” and runs it. It
could use “TryExec” to figure out if “~/.xsession” exists, and offer it
to the user (in the session selector) in that case. To be concrete, we
would create a “user.desktop” session file with the following contents.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=User Session
Comment=Start a user-defined session
Exec=run-user-xsession
TryExec=xsession-exists-p
Icon=
Type=Application
Here, “run-user-xsession” and “xsession-exists-p” are custom scripts
that we would write. If this file were somewhere that GDM knows about
(e.g., “/run/current-system/profile/share/xsessions”), it should work.
-- Tim
Re: GDM update!, Timothy Sample, 2019/02/11
Re: GDM update!, Alex Griffin, 2019/02/11