Ubuntu
ratpoison package

Package fails to install .desktop in /usr/share/xsessions

Bug #69155 reported by Jason Ribeiro
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ratpoison (Debian)
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ratpoison (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The dapper version of ratpoison installed a .desktop file to /usr/share/xsessions. Currently the package contains no .desktop file. As a result you can't select ratpoison as your wm from the sessions menu in gdm (for example).

The changelog for ratpoison on Sat, 20 May 2006 17:18:22 +0200 says:
- no longer ship a .desktop file as already registered in the Debian menu

I think a .desktop should be included so that you can choose ratpoison from the gdm session menu.

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Changed in ratpoison:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Dan O'Huiginn (daniel-ohuiginn) wrote :

Confirming this. Debian's rationale for not including a .desktop file doesn't apply to Ubuntu - we don't use the Debian menu system by default.

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Quentin Wright (q-clocksoft) wrote :

A work around is to copy the gnome.desktop in /usr/share/xsessions to ratpoison.desktop
Change the relevant occurrences of GNOME in ratpoison.desktop to RATPOISON
Change the Exec line to Exec=/usr/bin/ratpoison

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Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Fixed: In 1.4.0-beta4-8 gdm/kdm support was fixed, so this is no longer needed.

Changed in ratpoison:
status: New → Fix Released
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Chet Gray (chetgray) wrote :

As Dan O'Huiginn noted, the Debian fix does not apply to Ubuntu, as Ubuntu's x-window-manager packages use /usr/share/xsessions.

Changed in ratpoison:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
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Jeff Abrahamson (jeff-purple) wrote :

This bug is five years old but continues to be true of the current (13.04) ubuntu release.

If this is being tracked elsewhere, can we update here?
If not, I've attached the (trivial) file required to add to the ratpoison package.

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