Package: xdm Severity: wishlist Tags: patch when setting up a diskless terminal with a shared read-only root filesystem, it is very difficult to start a different display manager on each diskless terminal.
if /etc/init.d/xdm (and gdm, kdm, wdm) were patched to check that HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER is not set before setting it to true, it would be easier to invoke a different display manager on each individual terminal: HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=false /etc/init.d/xdm start the attached patch would allow for this sort of behavior. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
--- etc/init.d/xdm 2004-12-09 06:53:04.000000000 -0800 +++ etc/init.d/xdm.new 2005-02-12 20:24:08.000000000 -0800 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # To start xdm even if it is not the default display manager, change # HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER to "false." -HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=true +test -z "$HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER" && HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=true DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE=/etc/X11/default-display-manager PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
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