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

Paul Menzel pm.debian at googlemail.com
Tue Oct 16 15:17:20 UTC 2012


Am Donnerstag, den 11.10.2012, 13:34 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> Am Donnerstag, den 11.10.2012, 13:31 +0200 schrieb Yves-Alexis Perez:
> > On jeu., 2012-10-11 at 13:00 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > > thank you for verifying this. I wonder though why LightDM cannot
> > > use /usr/bin/Xorg while GDM is able to. 
> > 
> > Did you try (put xserver-command=Xorg in lightdm.conf) ?
> 
> No, I did not try that. I will try to do so, thanks for the pointer!

I did

        lightdm/lightdm.conf: Try `Xorg` to not need `xserver-xorg` [1]
            
        http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688756
        ---
        diff --git a/lightdm/lightdm.conf b/lightdm/lightdm.conf
        index 264b2bb..ed40001 100644
        --- a/lightdm/lightdm.conf
        +++ b/lightdm/lightdm.conf
        @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
         # exit-on-failure = True if the daemon should exit if this seat fails
         #
         [SeatDefaults]
        -#xserver-command=X
        +xserver-command=Xorg
         #xserver-layout=
         #xserver-config=
         xserver-allow-tcp=false

and logging out or restarting the system started LightDM up as expected.
So I think it is safe to implement that change.


Thanks,

Paul
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