On lun., 2011-08-29 at 19:33 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > [this is completely off-topic on lightdm list please switch to > pkg-xfce-devel so we can fix the Xfce/Debian part]
And another (private) reply, sorry for that, the pkg-xfce list address was wrong, this is the correct one. > > On lun., 2011-08-29 at 10:18 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > On 08/29/2011 09:21 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > [this is off-topic on lightdm list, sorry] > > > On lun., 2011-08-29 at 09:10 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > >> > > >> My users didn't want to start the session manually from the terminal, so > > >> I've removed LightDM and gone back to XDM. (Also, in Debian testing > > >> there was an XDM / task-xfce-desktop interdependency that was causing > > >> some problems with package management (aptitude) after I removed XDM. > > >> Going back to XDM seems to have eliminated those issues as well. > > > > > > You can safely remove task-xfce-desktop, it's just a metapackage which > > > pulls the Xfce task. Next upload will switch xdm to lightdm. > > > > I did remove task-xfce-desktop on those systems. It was after I did that > > that those systems stopped loading Xfce. > > Check that nothing else has been removed by aptitude. > > > > And, even though I updated aptitude, it didn't switch from xdm to > > lightdm. When I re-installed task-xfce-desktop, xdm was pulled as a > > dependency. > > Yes, as I said, the update has been done in tasksel repository but it > will take time before it reach testing and images are starting to be > made with this change. > > > > I wonder if there's a problem just with these specific installations > > that is peculiar to the images I used for the installation -- an i386 > > and an AMD64 image from about 08/17. Is something like that possible. > > > > With the problems I've seen with these two particular systems, I'm > > tempted to re-install them both from scratch. > > Not sure it'll do anything. > > > > Am I to take it that, if I do that now (netinst), the xfce desktop will > > pull LightDM as the default DM? > > No, not yet. > > > > >> > > >> I am NOT seeing the problem with LightDM starting the Xfce session on > > >> systems that were installed back when GDM (version 2) was the default DM > > >> for Xfce. But all of the systems on which XDM was made a dependency of > > >> Xfce have had to be reverted to XDM. > > > > > > This is weird, but without debug info (especially logs) from lightdm, > > > I'm not sure one can do anything. > > > > > > > Yes, I understand. Unfortunately, I didn't think to collect the logs, > > and I wound up purging the packages (and the information I need to > > correct the problem) on both of the systems that were behaving this > > before I thought about it. It was the weekend, and everyone was tired > > and cranky. > > Ok, now, please do: > > * install task-xfce-desktop > * install lightdm > * switch default greeter to lightdm (dpkg-reconfigure lightdm should > propose you that) > > When LightDM starts, select “Xfce session” in the dropdown menu. > > Does it work? > > Regards, > _______________________________________________ > LightDM mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/lightdm -- Yves-Alexis
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