Bug 439892 – gnome-session-properties doesn't allow a "custom" session

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Bug 439892 - gnome-session-properties doesn't allow a "custom" session

Summary:	gnome-session-properties doesn't allow a "custom" session

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	gnome-session (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported:	2008-03-31 17:28 EDT by Valdis Kletnieks
Modified:	2008-04-02 12:11 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2008-04-01 15:41:08 EDT
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Description Valdis Kletnieks 2008-03-31 17:28:42 EDT

Description of problem:
gnome-session-properties allows 3 zillion different Gnome options to be set, but
there is no way to set a 'custom' session (specifically, one that gets you to
this code in /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession:

# otherwise, take default action
if [ -x "$HOME/.xsession" ]; then
    exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSH_AGENT $HOME/.xsession"

It insists on invoking that script with $1=='gnome-session' and there's no
obvious way to change it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-session-2.22.0-1.fc9.x86_64

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Additional info:
Some sites/users have special-case needs that are best addressed with a custom
non-Gnome session. There should be some way to configure this.

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-04-01 15:41:08 EDT

install xorg-x11-xinit-session and it should add an item to the session combo
box in gdm for you to run that file.

Comment 2 Valdis Kletnieks 2008-04-02 12:11:25 EDT

Confirming that xorg-x11-xinit-session provides the functionality I needed. 
That might be worth a mention in the release notes - I don't know if that RPM is
flagged to install by default on a 9 install or upgrade.

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