Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gdm
The Init script for GDM: /etc/gdm/Init/Default is looking to see if
/etc/X11/Xresources is a file. If it is, it merges the entries in that
file into the X server's resources.
Here's the problem code from /etc/gdm/Init/Default:
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sysresources=/etc/X11/Xresources
# merge in defaults
if [ -f "$sysresources" ]; then
xrdb -merge "$sysresources"
fi
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The problem is, /etc/X11/Xresources is a directory. It contains a file
called 'x11-common'.
So, the system Xresources never get merged.
The GDM Init/Default script should be modified to merge any files found
in that directory, but I think the directory should be named with a '.d'
suffix. IE, it should be: /etc/X11/Xresources.d
Then, the x11-common package should be modified to put it's "x11-common"
resource file into the new /etc/X11/Xresources.d directory.
This would be similar to the way /etc/X11/Xsession.d is handled but we
don't need to "source" the files, we need to "merge" them with xrdb.
I found this problem on Hardy, here's the output of lsb_release -rd:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/X11# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
The version of the gdm package is: 2.20.6-0ubuntu2
Also, I checked on an Edgy machine and the same problem existed there as
well.
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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GDM Init/Default runs xrdb trying to merge a directory instead of a file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247691
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