On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Yann Dirson wrote: > 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.
The -s option was removed from the command line because the option is ignored by gdmflexiserver. At least, that is what "gdmflexiserver -?" says. > 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. Yes, this would be nice. I think a run-time check is the only proper way to determine if the button should be displayed or not. > 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 Are you really sure that the -s has any effect? In that case the "-?" output must be wrong. > /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. I believe XScreenSaver should be a symlink, pointing to XScreenSaver-gl as long as xscreensaver-gl has been installed. The link is created/deleted in the xscreensaver-gl postinst/postrm. > 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 ? The postinst/postrm files have not been touched since at least the 5.05-2 release (that's how far back the git history goes). Maybe there was a bug in some really old version and you have kept the plain file ever since? Thanks for investigating these issues! Tormod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
