[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#461495: xfdesktop4: Root image not being set on login

Steve Greenland steveg at moregruel.net
Mon Feb 25 20:02:53 UTC 2008


On 25-Feb-08, 13:51 (CST), Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> % grep \^sessions /etc/slim.conf
> sessions        startxfce4,openbox,ion3

Apparently I'm a blind idiot:

sessions            xfce4-session,openbox,icewm,wmaker,blackbox

> > (But why on earth is defaulting the session manager provided by the
> > desktop system a bad idea?)
> 
> (startxfce4 starts gpg agents, dbus daemons, and other useful stuff for
>  the desktop)

So does the Debian default XSession, via the files in
/etc/X11/Xsession.d. The slim DM calls that, via the previously
mentioned login_cmd. I'm certainly getting all those features.

Steve

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