Hello, Timothy Sample <samp...@ngyro.com> skribis:
> There are two workarounds. The first is to keep Danny’s patch as-is, > but add logic to “xinitrc” so that it only uses “~/.xsession” when > passed “custom” as an argument (it’s kinda magic, but it seems to be a > common convention). I have a slight preference for this option, because > it makes the whole “~/.xsession” thing more explicit. However, it would > break other DMs that don’t install a “custom.desktop”. Maybe we could > integrate it into all DMs at the service level. > > The quicker workaround is to keep the current logic, and install the > following with GDM: > > [Desktop Entry] > Encoding=UTF-8 > Type=Application > Name=Fail > Comment=This session always fails. > NoDisplay=true > Exec=false > > This way, GDM fails cleanly when there are no “.desktop” files. It > doesn’t show up in the list, either (“NoDisplay=true”), so everything > just kinda works as expected without any visible changes. I have a slight preference for the hack you propose Timothy, at least in the short term, because it seems less likely to break anything than fiddling with “Exec=custom” and all that. Anyway, it’d be great if one of you could push a fix by 1.0. :-) Thanks, Ludo’.
