Comment 10 for bug 398300
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| Jonathan Thiessen (jjthiessen) wrote Re: The new gdm doesn't give an option to use .xsession | #10 |
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Traumflug: No. The .desktop file is what may vary from system to system. This means that the name of the option in your display manager may be different, however, the basic behaviour should be invariant. That is, .xsession and .xinitrc should work the same as they always have, it's just that the display manager will now be xsession script agnostic (no special case handling).
I must say that I agree with the GDM people on this one. The .desktop approach is (at least somewhat?) standard. This could make multiple display managers on the same system reflect the same system policy (eg not allowing user xsession scripts if the appropriate file does not exist)(supposing nobody else offers it as a built-in option), and give a more consistent view (the options would have the same names and descriptions across different display managers).