I'm running lxde on my net-top and selected it via tasksel; the lxde task-lxde-desktop.
task-lxde-desktop depends on xdm xdm however, fails to set the session as active (even though it does get set as local and using the x terminal). After much search I ran across something that mentioned lightdm as an alternate login screen. lightdm solves the issue. The solution is to either fix xdm or make anything that depends on xdm depend on a placeholder that effectively means 'dm provider'; with a priority list of providers weighted more heavily to those which provide consolekit integration support as well as some method of weighting dependent upon already installed library files (this might be automatic given installed/non-installed packages; I'm not sure how dpkg reacts). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org