On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:47:16PM +0200, Tormod Volden wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Yann Dirson wrote: > > In which version does it say so ? In 2.20.11-4 it says: > > > > -s, --startnew Start new flexible session; do not show popup > > > > If they changed someting in gdm3, there may be a problem to be solved > > in one way or another. But it may be that they kept the -s flag for > > compatibility with gdm2. > > The "gdm" package was removed in February. Shouldn't you have been > migrated to the gdm3 package (currently at version 2.30.5-10) by now?
1. nothing in aptitude brought me to notice this and ask myself whether I should do that, I had even not noticed that "gdm" had been removed before you wrote this. 2. I have now started to look at gdm3, and it looks like it has at least lost the --xnest feature, which is bad - this is a great feature, and I'm not the only one to think this, see #601106. I'd say that old gdm has been prematurely removed from Debian... but this is another story. At least there will be people sticking to that package for some time, even if it does not come back. As for the -s flag, here is what gdm3 says: $ gdmflexiserver -h Usage: gdmflexiserver [OPTION...] - New GDM login Help Options: -h, --help Show help options Application Options: -c, --command=COMMAND Only the VERSION command is supported -n, --xnest Ignored — retained for compatibility -l, --no-lock Ignored — retained for compatibility -d, --debug Debugging output -a, --authenticate Ignored — retained for compatibility -s, --startnew Ignored — retained for compatibility --monte-carlo-pi --version Version of this application And I could verify that it indeed works fine with -s in my xscreensaver config. That seems to settle the issue, could you please reintroduce this flag in the next upload ? TIA, -- Yann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
