Your message dated Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:00:40 +0200 with message-id <20120419180040.gt4...@radis.cristau.org> and subject line Re: Bug#669361: xdm: Fix the xdm startup configuration (xinitrc) has caused the Debian Bug report #669361, regarding xdm: Fix the xdm startup configuration (xinitrc) to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.10-3 Severity: important File: xdm Hi, Linux is not a mess, and packagers and maintainers ought to care about usesrs. .xinitrc is not read by xdm to start .dmrc is not read by xdm to start please make one of them to be read to start a given WM Please care about this post, really. It can be changed .xinitrc and .dmrc and whatever, and it is not possible to select the WM one wants. Please a fix for debian stable and not sid, because XDM exists since really a long time. Thank you for your understanding Ubuntu -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xdm depends on: ii cpp 4:4.4.5-1 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp) ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 authorisation library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxft2 2.1.14-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxinerama1 2:1.1-3 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.8-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii procps 1:3.2.8-9 /proc file system utilities ii x11-common 1:7.5+8+squeeze1 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc ii x11-utils 7.5+4 X11 utilities ii x11-xserver-utils 7.5+3 X server utilities xdm recommends no packages. xdm suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 15:24:20 +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Ubuntu6226 <ubuntu6...@yahoo.com> [120419 13:51]: > > Linux is not a mess, and packagers and maintainers ought to care about > > usesrs. > > > > .xinitrc is not read by xdm to start > > .dmrc is not read by xdm to start > > .xinitrc is to be read when starting it via xinit. > For starting things from a display manager, there is .xsession (or .Xsession), > reading .xinitrc there would be a bug. > Quite. Closing. Cheers, Juliensignature.asc
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