Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 658247
switch desk does not
Last modified: 2012-08-16 17:08:36 EDT
Hi All, $ rpm -qa \*switchdesk\* switchdesk-4.0.9-8.fc14.1.noarch switchdesk-gui-4.0.9-8.fc14.1.noarch After doing a group install on Xfce, I tried to get switchdesk to switch me to Xfce but it did not. Work around: use the "session" at the bottom of the greater screen, which does work. Be nice if switchdesk worked too. Many thanks, -T
Ok the problem is that .Xclients is no longer looked at in the startup. As far as I can tell the only way it gets used is if Gnome or KDE are not installed on the system. Otherwise the system looks at the .dmrc file to figure out what desktop to use. Should be a simple patch to change functionality to add that file per usage.
Looks like switchdesk needs a dep on xorg-x11-xinit-session (which provides support for ~/.xsession and ~/.Xclients)
Ah.. ok. I wonder if a .dmrc addition would be useful also. I noticed it has not been updated to deal with LXDE and such.
(In reply to comment #2) > Looks like switchdesk needs a dep on xorg-x11-xinit-session (which provides > support for ~/.xsession and ~/.Xclients) Reading bug 142260 I was under the impression that ~/.Xclients is considered obsolete and /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession.d is the way to go. (In reply to comment #3) > Ah.. ok. I wonder if a .dmrc addition would be useful also. I noticed it has > not been updated to deal with LXDE and such. See bug 478529 which was closed WONTFIX.
Installing xorg-x11-xinit-session doesn't help. If gdm is the DM _and_ the aforementioned package is installed, then it still ignores the ~/.Xclients-default that switchdesk wrote. gdm-2.32.1-2.fc14.x86_64 switchdesk-4.0.9-8.fc14.1.noarch xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.0.9-18.fc14.x86_64 Very annoying/frustrating. Fortunately Todd's workaround hint made me stare at the gdm greeter long enough to figure out I could select my WM _after_ selecting my login (I thought it was there somewhere but it doesn't show up until a login is chosen... and it isn't completely obvious). If ~/.Xclients-default is being obsoleted/deprecated _AND_ being ignored by Fedora's default DM (gdm), then switchdesk really should be updated to use a file that will actually have an effect, be that .dmrc or a file in /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession.d And it wouldn't hurt if the gdm greeter made the choice of WM more obvious (but that's a bug for a different package)...
p.s. if nothing else, switchdesk could add a note to ~/.Xclients-default that includes a blurb along the lines of "If gdm/kdm is your display manager, then you may need to manually edit ~/.dmrc"... that would least give a hint to the (non-novice) user trying to figure why it isn't working.
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