Some version of x11-wm/awesome after 3.4.11 adds "NoDisplay=true" to the xsession file at /usr/share/xsessions/awesome.desktop. This results in awesome not being available when using lightdm as display manager (don't know about other DMs, but other than slim, I suspect they will behave the same). The upstream bug in URL reveals why this was done. Perhaps the desktop file could be patched until this is resolved upstream. This change was especially bad for me, because as a result lightdm-gtk-greeter repeatedly crashed (actually, lightdm keeps respawning it, so it keeps crashing indefinitely until I stop it). I only figured this out after eventually downgrading to lightdm-gtk-greeter-1.1.6, where I noticed that awesome wasn't showing up in the list of desktop sessions. As a FYI: if I understand correctly the crash itself might be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter/+bug/1161883, but I haven't verified that yet. I might take the time later today. The crash is only of secondary importance here, anyway. If I *can* verify it, I'll open another bug for reference. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Prerequisites: using lightdm-1.4.0 + lightdm-gtk-greeter-1.3.1-r1 1. Upgrade from awesome-3.4.11 to 3.4.15. 2. Exit the desktop session. 3. Restart lightdm. Actual Results: Lightdm-gtk-greeter starts segfaulting indefinitely. Alternatively, awesome doesn't show up in the list of available desktop sessions (see description). Expected Results: Lightdm restarts normally. $ emerge --info awesome Portage 2.1.11.55 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.7.10-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.7.10-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_4200+-with-gentoo-2.1 KiB Mem: 4046960 total, 252632 free KiB Swap: 6291452 total, 6285620 free Timestamp of tree: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo science wagnerflo sunrise overnight ladi proaudio pd-overlay mjoliet Installed sets: @audio, @desktop-apps, @desktop-base, @desktop-misc, @devel, @games, @latex, @local-marcec, @science, @server, @sys-base, @sys-utils, @temp ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/polkit-1/actions" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y --quiet-build=y --nospinner" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg 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/usr/local/portage/layman/overnight /usr/local/portage/layman/ladi /usr/local/portage/layman/pro-audio /usr/local/portage/layman/pd-overlay /usr/local/portage/marcec" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo caps cdinstall cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups cxx dbus dga djvu dri dssi dts dvd encode exif fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac fortran ftp fuse gdbm gif gmp gnuplot gnutls gpm gtk iconv idn imlib inotify ipv6 jack jackmidi jpeg jpeg2k kipi ladspa lapack lash latex lcms libnotify libsamplerate logrotate lzma mad mjpeg mmx mmxext mng modplug modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz ncurses nfs nls nptl ntp offensive ogg openexr opengl openmp osc pam pango pcre pdf plotutils png policykit pulseaudio qt4 quicktime rar readline rtsp samba sasl session sid slang smp sndfile speex spell sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs taglib tcpd theora threads 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COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en_US en en_GB de" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= x11-wm/awesome-3.4.15 was built with the following: USE="dbus doc (multilib) -gnome" ABI_X86="64"
It has been dropped in 3.5: http://goo.gl/Vsq5b Probably we should just sed this line out and forget about it.
Fixed in 3.4.15, enjoy.
Thanks a lot :) ! (Although: I would have expected a revbump.)
(In reply to comment #3) > I would have expected a revbump. We (well, I) decided against it, since it's a minor change, not touching actual codebase. And revbump would require all the awesome users to rebuild it for no apparent reason or benefit (as nobody has complained since January).
