[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#810911: Bug#810911: cinnamon: when cinnamon crashes failsafe session is no longer started

[Maximiliano Curia]

On Wednesday, 13 January 2016 17:40:51 CET Michal Suchanek wrote:
> I upgraded cinnamon to current version and the failsafe session no longer
> includes gnome panel.
 
> This reduces dependencies but when cinnamon actually fails you are left with
> a black screen with a mouse cursor.
 
> It turns out that this screen actually shows my desktop folder (empty after
> fresh installation) so strategically placing some program icons there
> allows me to continue with the session.
 
> Also right-clicking the black screen gives a menu which allows starting a
> terminal.
 
> Neither is very obvious, however.
 
> It would be nice if the failsafe session included some visible program
> menu/launcher.

Just to add some context, cinnamon-launcher falls back to metacity as a window 
manager and gnome-panel or tint2 for a panel if cinnamon fails to start 
correctly. Neither of these three are dependencies of cinnamon, and I don't 
think they should be. These are only used in case of a total system failure to 
show something to the user.

It would be nice if the launcher script had more fallback options, but I think 
that it should be a valid installation if the user doesn't want to install 
them.

Maybe adding this information to the Readme.Debian file will be enough.

Happy hacking,
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