Bug 110312
| Summary: | switchdesk's idea of available sessions is different from gdm | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | David Jansen <jansen> |
| Component: | switchdesk | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1 | ||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-05-27 11:13:13 UTC | Type: | --- |
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i have added selection of System defaults in switchdesk-4.0.4-1. it will be showed up in rawhide soon. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Description of problem: Maybe this is not one bug, but a couple of related bugs When selecting a session different from the users default in gdm, a dialog pops up stating that this is a one time change, and directing the user to switchdesk to set a permanent preference. However, switchdesk presents a completely different set of available desktops than the ones offered by gdm, and what's more, some of these arent even present on my system (enlightenment, fvwm2 ; those are not even present on the FC1 cds) A related problem: switchdesk doesn't offer a way to get rid of these preferences and return to using the system default, or the user's .xsession (well, it does: when running switchdesk from an xterm you'll get the advice "For system defaults, remove /home/user.Xclients", but since most users will access switchdesk from the preferences menu, this advice will go unnoticed) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): switchdesk-3.9.8-18 gdm-2.4.4.5-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run switchdesk from the preferences menu and select any session other than Gnome or KDE 2.Log out 3.Wonder how to get rid of that switchdesk preference... Actual Results: switchdesk may have messed up your preferences (eg when selecting a non-existent desktop like fvwm2) or it hardcoded your preference as Gnome or KDE, with no easy way of returning to your own customized .xsession Expected Results: switchdesk ought to present a list of existing desktop environments, as well as a choice to return to using .xsession (or System Default) Additional info: It would be ideal if switchdesk were aware of the files in /etc/X11/dm/Sessions . Just finding the titles (for switchdesk's menu) and Exec statements (for the .Xclients script it builds).