[Trisquel-devel] gnome-session & gnome-session-classic

[Luis A. Guzmán García]

El lun, 27-01-2014 a las 11:40 -0600, Luis A. Guzmán García escribió:
> Hi!,
> 
I just re-read my last message and there is a typo that changes the
whole meaning of what i tried to express, sorry, look below.

> I've been customizing my default trisquel installation, i use the
> default gnome version @ 32 bits.
> 
> The most recent change i've come up with is the replacement of GDM to
> slim as the default session manager.
> 
> It has come up with the issue that slim tries to start the default
> session which is gnome-session but the raw binary calls for "ubuntu", so
> on slim.conf i added the gnome-session-classic and now i have the option
> to start with it, but the default gnome-session is still calling for
> ubuntu.
> 
> I went a little far and remove the x-session-manager
> (/usr/bin/gnome-session) link on /etc/alternatives and created one
> pointing to /usr/bin/gnome-session-classic.
> 
> Since update-alternatives --config x-session-manager won't allow me to
> choose gnome-session-classic, i know that gnome-session-classic
> basically just calls gnome-session with the --session=gnome-classic
> option.
> 
> It did work for starting the slim session with the default option, now
==
autologin *CAN* start normally.
==
> 
> My question here is, how bad idea was to replace gnome-session to
> gnome-session-classic at the /etc/alternatives directory?
> 
> The first time i had this issue was when building the LTSP image for the
> clients, login with LDM, but also lts.conf can fix this adding the
> gnome-classic session on it.
> 
> Thanks for your time and future comments :)

Again, sorry if this typo was misleading xD

Please share thoughts.

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