Bug 609037 - RFE: WDM option missing in sysconfig.txt documentation
Summary: RFE: WDM option missing in sysconfig.txt documentation
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: initscripts
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-06-29 09:12 UTC by Jaroslav Reznik
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-02-26 01:03:33 UTC
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Description Jaroslav Reznik 2010-06-29 09:12:28 UTC 
Description of problem: WDM option missing in sysconfig.txt documentation

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cat /usr/share/doc/initscripts-9.12/sysconfig.txt | grep DISPLAYMANAGER
  
Actual results:
DISPLAYMANAGER=GNOME|KDE|XDM

Expected results:
DISPLAYMANAGER=GNOME|KDE|WDM|XDM

Additional info:
See /etc/X11/prefdm for the list.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2010-06-29 15:12:26 UTC 
It's a deprecated option. At this point, just install wdm (and remove the others) and the right thing happens.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2010-06-29 15:17:31 UTC 
Clarified in http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=initscripts.git;a=commitdiff&h=45532a7c521cd93a98307aa26aaad147c0f6ce87 and the following commit
Comment 3 Kevin Kofler 2010-06-29 15:32:11 UTC 
It doesn't make sense to deprecate this option. Users may have more than one DM installed for whatever reason and still want to be able to set the default. Configuring your system by installing or removing packages is not that great an idea.
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2010-06-29 15:45:26 UTC 
Perhaps 'deprecated' isn't the right word. But it shouldn't need to be set in normal operation.
Comment 5 Jaroslav Reznik 2010-06-29 15:51:17 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> Perhaps 'deprecated' isn't the right word. But it shouldn't need to be set in
> normal operation.    

That makes sense. With "deprecated" it looks like the support is completely removed. Could you change it in documentation? Thanks.
Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2011-02-26 01:03:33 UTC 
This should be fixed.
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