On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:31:59 +0100 Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> wrote:
> > > > Would replacing gdm by xdm solve the problem (see #510422)? > > > > Well, I guess so. > > Could you (or someone else from the desktop teams) test this? I'm just the user who reported the bug (though I hope at some point to become a DD), and I have tested with a custom task (below). I did a standard install, modified the task file and did tasksel -t install xfce-desktop that didn't work (gnome-desktop was selected) and I discovered I also had to manually edit tasksel/desktop in the debconf settings so that the desktop was xfce-xdm instead of gnome - this should happen via dpkg-reconfigure IMO. That fixed the aptitude line and I did tasksel install xfce-desktop but that doesn't seem to work because gdm was pulled in. I finally created another tasked that didn't enhance desktop (below) and it and installed xdm not gdm, and didn't pull in gnome stuff On another note, I'd like to suggest using system-config-printer instead of foomatic-gui ; I'm not sure foomatic-gui is maintained anymore and system-config-printer is the recommended replacement in any event. > > I'd like some comments from other pkg-xfce team > > members, but if it's not too late, that would be ok. > > There is a slight risk of incompatibility with tasksel. > > > I didn't use xdm since quite some time, but does it uses a > > desktop-base theme by default, these days? No it doesn't. > > No idea. You are supposed to be the desktop people here... > Task: xfce-desktop Section: user Relevance: 8 Description: Xfce desktop environment with xdm This task provides basic "desktop" software using the Xfce desktop environment but uses XDM instead of GDM Key: xfce4 xdm Enhances: desktop Packages: list foomatic-gui mousepad openoffice.org-gtk orage xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfce4-mixer xfce4-terminal xfmedia xfprint4 xsane Test-preferred-desktop: xfce ####### Task #2 ####### Task: xfce-xdm Section: user Description: Xfce desktop environment with xdm This task provides basic "desktop" software using the Xfce desktop environment but uses XDM instead of GDM Key: xfce4 xdm Packages: list foomatic-gui mousepad openoffice.org-gtk orage xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfce4-mixer xfce4-terminal xfmedia xfprint4 xsane alsa-base alsa-utils anacron avahi-daemon cpufrequtils cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gutenprint desktop-base eject foo2zjs foomatic-filters-ppds gimp hp-ppd hpijs hplip iceweasel kerneloops libgl1-mesa-dri libnss-mdns menu myspell-en-us openoffice.org openoffice.org-gcj openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us printconf swfdec-mozilla twm vbetool xdg-utils xorg xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-video-all xterm -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org The C Shore: http://www.wightman.ca/~cshore
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