[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#688756: Bug#688756: Bug#688756: Bug#688756: lightdm: no greeter: `Can't launch X server X, not found in path`

Paul Menzel pm.debian at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 11 11:00:12 UTC 2012


Dear Yves-Alexis,


Am Donnerstag, den 11.10.2012, 12:43 +0200 schrieb Yves-Alexis Perez:
> On mar., 2012-09-25 at 16:00 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > On mar., 2012-09-25 at 15:44 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > > > Please find it attached.
> > > 
> > > Alright, reading the error message again, `/usr/bin/X` is not
> > > installed
> > > as it is in `xserver-xorg` `lightdm` only recommends.
> > > 
> > > 1. Is that due to that LightDM can also be used from remote?
> > 
> > Yes, I think so.
> > 
> > > 2. Since GDM can start fine without `/usr/bin/X`, LightDM should also
> > > be
> > > able to?
> > > 
> > > Please proceed as you want with this report. I am sorry for the noise.
> > 
> > Well, even though lightdm might not need a hard dependency on
> > xserver-xorg, I think lightdm-gtk-greeter might need it, so I'm keeping
> > it open for now.
> 
> Ok, X is run by lightdm itself, not the greeter, which has nothing to do
> with this. Recommends: is enough to cover the most common setups and
> still allow for more uncommon ones, so closing.

thank you for verifying this. I wonder though why LightDM cannot
use /usr/bin/Xorg while GDM is able to.


Thanks,

Paul
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