Bug#349000: this is a very annoying regression

2012-02-18 Thread Tormod Volden
Just to clear up some wrong assumptions I expressed earlier. The obsolete options that were removed recently in 5.13-1 were the -a and -c options, not the -s option. Although upstream now gives the example in the comment to use -ls, Debian never did. gdmflexiserver support was introduced upstream

Bug#349000: this is a very annoying regression

2012-01-29 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 09:52:49PM +0100, Tormod Volden wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Yann Dirson ydir...@free.fr wrote: I'd say that old gdm has been prematurely removed from Debian... but this is another story.  At least there will be people sticking to that package for some

Bug#349000: this is a very annoying regression

2012-01-28 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:47:16PM +0200, Tormod Volden wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Yann Dirson wrote: In which version does it say so ?  In 2.20.11-4 it says:  -s, --startnew            Start new flexible session; do not show popup If they changed someting in gdm3, there

Bug#349000: this is a very annoying regression

2012-01-28 Thread Tormod Volden
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Yann Dirson ydir...@free.fr wrote: I'd say that old gdm has been prematurely removed from Debian... but this is another story.  At least there will be people sticking to that package for some time, even if it does not come back. And I could verify that it

Bug#349000: this is a very annoying regression

2011-06-30 Thread Tormod Volden
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Yann Dirson wrote: severity 349000 important thanks Sorry, but I don't think we should consider this as a wishlist.  It used to work just fine, and I'm getting endless complains at home because once there are 2 displays open, noone can open a new session

Bug#349000: this is a very annoying regression

2011-06-30 Thread Tormod Volden
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Yann Dirson wrote: So it looks like the -s flag was indeed here at some point, but was removed to improve things for machines without gdm ?  Unfortunately, I can't find any details in the changelog, not in the bts, about what can be improved that way. The -s

Bug#349000: this is a very annoying regression

2011-06-30 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:56:48AM +0200, Tormod Volden wrote: On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Yann Dirson wrote: So it looks like the -s flag was indeed here at some point, but was removed to improve things for machines without gdm ?  Unfortunately, I can't find any details in the

Bug#349000: this is a very annoying regression

2011-06-30 Thread Tormod Volden
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Yann Dirson wrote: In which version does it say so ?  In 2.20.11-4 it says:  -s, --startnew            Start new flexible session; do not show popup If they changed someting in gdm3, there may be a problem to be solved in one way or another.  But it may be

Bug#349000: this is a very annoying regression

2011-06-25 Thread Yann Dirson
severity 349000 important thanks Sorry, but I don't think we should consider this as a wishlist. It used to work just fine, and I'm getting endless complains at home because once there are 2 displays open, noone can open a new session through the new login button: a very visible feature has been

Bug#349000: this is a very annoying regression

2011-06-25 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 02:12:05PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: I note that the 5.13-1 changelog says Remove obsolete gdmflexiserver options. Without more details it is hard to say if this had an influence, but it has at least the potential to. Could it be that previously the --starnew option