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gdm package

  1. Karmic (9.10)
  2. Bug #398300
  3. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 398300

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Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd) wrote : Re: [Bug 398300] Re: gdm ignores .xsession file

Sebastien Bacher wrote:

> Thank you for your bug report, what session do you select?

I left it as GNOME.

However, I've been running Ubuntu since breezy and have always set
the window manager in the $HOME/.xession file. Previous versions of
gdm would allow whatever session was set up in gdm to be overrridden
by the contents of $HOME/.xession. At various times I have run
fluxbox, openbox, enlightenment 17 and xmonad in this way.

The $HOME/.xession file also allows the running of tools like xmodmap,
xrdb and xset. This no longer works with the Karmic version of gdm.

Erik
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