Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.6+10 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
I've been trying to get the sawfish WM to work with the latest gnome3. One the sawfish mailing list I was pointed to how xmonad got things to work: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmonad#GNOME_3_and_xmonad They revolve around starting an Xsession by execing gnome-session with an argument to point it to a non-standard gnome-session setup for sawfish. This approach fails because adding the extra argument breaks a "which" line in: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args The problem is the quoting of the "$1" argument to "which" on line 48: STARTUP_FULL_PATH=$(/usr/bin/which "$1" || true) It tells "which" that the "executable" is the entire string: "gnome-session --session=sawfish" Removing the quotes: STARTUP_FULL_PATH=$(/usr/bin/which $1 || true) allows the session to start up as expected. Regards, -Brett. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages x11-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.41 ii lsb-base 3.2-28 x11-common recommends no packages. x11-common suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args changed: OPTIONS=$(cat "$OPTIONFILE") || true has_option() { if [ "${OPTIONS#* $1}" != "$OPTIONS" ]; then return 0 else return 1 fi } case $# in 0) # No arguments given; use default behavior. ;; 1) # One argument given; see what it was. case "$1" in failsafe) # Failsafe session was requested. if has_option allow-failsafe; then if [ -e /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator ]; then exec x-terminal-emulator -geometry +1+1 else # fatal error errormsg "unable to launch failsafe X session ---" \ "x-terminal-emulator not executable; aborting." fi else # fatal error errormsg "unable to launch failsafe X session ---" \ "x-terminal-emulator not found; aborting." fi fi ;; default) # Default behavior was requested. ;; *) # Specific program was requested. STARTUP_FULL_PATH=$(/usr/bin/which $1 || true) if [ -n "$STARTUP_FULL_PATH" ] && [ -e "$STARTUP_FULL_PATH" ]; then if [ -x "$STARTUP_FULL_PATH" ]; then STARTUP="$1" else message "unable to launch \"$1\" X session ---" \ "\"$1\" not executable; falling back to default session." fi else message "unable to launch \"$1\" X session ---" \ "\"$1\" not found; falling back to default session." fi ;; esac ;; *) # More than one argument given; we don't know what to do. message "unsupported number of arguments ($#); falling back to default" \ "session." ;; esac -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
