Debian Bug report logs - #729815
slim: defaults to gnome session, regardless of last selected session or configuration

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Jamin W. Collins" <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: slim: defaults to gnome session, regardless of last selected session or configuration

Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:32:10 -0800

Package: slim
Version: 1.3.4-2
Severity: important

>From what I can tell, slim defaults to a gnome-session every single time
regardless of the last session a user selected or what is specified in the
configuration.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages slim depends on:
ii  consolekit             0.4.6-3+b1
ii  dbus                   1.6.18-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.52
ii  libc6                  2.17-93
ii  libck-connector0       0.4.6-3+b1
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.18-1
ii  libfontconfig1         2.11.0-1
ii  libfreetype6           2.4.9-1.1
ii  libgcc1                1:4.8.2-1
ii  libjpeg8               8d-1
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-9
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.49-5
ii  libstdc++6             4.8.2-1
ii  libx11-6               2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxft2                2.3.1-1
ii  libxmu6                2:1.1.1-1
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.8-1
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages slim recommends:
ii  xterm  297-1

Versions of packages slim suggests:
pn  scrot  <none>
ii  xauth  1:1.0.7-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/slim.conf changed:
default_path        /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
default_xserver     /usr/bin/X11/X
xserver_arguments   -nolisten tcp
halt_cmd            /sbin/shutdown -h now
reboot_cmd          /sbin/shutdown -r now
console_cmd         /usr/bin/xterm -C -fg white -bg black +sb -T "Console login" -e /bin/sh -c "/bin/cat /etc/issue.net; exec /bin/login"
xauth_path         /usr/bin/X11/xauth
authfile           /var/run/slim.auth
login_cmd           exec /bin/bash -login /etc/X11/Xsession %session
sessions            startxfce4
screenshot_cmd      scrot /root/slim.png
welcome_msg         Welcome to %host
shutdown_msg       The system is halting...
reboot_msg         The system is rebooting...
current_theme       debian-joy
lockfile            /var/run/slim.lock
logfile             /var/log/slim.log


-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: wdm
  slim/daemon_name: /usr/bin/slim

Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Micha vor dem Berge <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Manual workaround

Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:55:16 +0100

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You can work around this bug by setting the x-session-manager manually. 
For e.g. xfce4 you would do:

   |update-alternatives --set  x-session-manager /usr/bin/xfce4-session|

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