On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 02:12:05PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > I note that the 5.13-1 changelog says "Remove obsolete gdmflexiserver > options". Without more details it is hard to say if this had an > influence, but it has at least the potential to. Could it be that > previously the --starnew option was passed, but that it is not passed > any more ?
Looking further, /etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver says: ! This command is executed by the "New Login" button on the lock dialog. ! (That button does not appear on the dialog if this program does not exist.) ! For Gnome: probably "gdmflexiserver -ls". KDE, probably "kdmctl reserve". ! ! ! *newLoginCommand: gdmflexiserver -ls ! Debian: Hard-wire the command in case the build machine does not have gdm *newLoginCommand: gdmflexiserver -l So it looks like the -s flag was indeed here at some point, but was removed to improve things for machines without gdm ? Unfortunately, I can't find any details in the changelog, not in the bts, about what can be improved that way. Perhaps what's missing is a way to check whether the newLoginCommand can in fact be executed, and gray out the "new login" button if not. Looks like this would address #304406 and #499909 at the same time. Another strange issue: although /etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver is there and adding -s in there does allow "new login" to work again correctly, it is not provided by any package, whereas there is a /etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver-nogl which is provided by xscreensaver-data, and *does* contain the -s flag. Unfortunately, moving app-defaults/XScreenSaver out of the way leaves the "gdmflexiserver -l" built into the binary be used as default, the -nogl version is not used. Looking at the xscreensaver postinst, it appears that file should be handled as a symlink, but here it is a plain file. Here I suspect that there would have been a transition from plain to symlink at some point, but can't find a hint about that in the changelog either (looking for "app-default" or "symlink"). Any idea why I got this plain file ? Best regards, -- Yann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
