Bug 52523

Summary:	GDM 2.6 ebuild
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Peter Warmuz <peter>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Sergey Kuleshov (RETIRED) <svyatogor>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor	CC:	gnome
Priority:	High
Version:	2004.1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Description Peter Warmuz 2004-05-30 22:35:25 UTC

When I emerged the latest; GDM was upgraded to 2.6.  There was no where in the ebuild saying that GDM looks for sessions in a different directory.  This causing the KDE session(s) not to be listed.  

After going through the gentoo forum; I found the proper solution.  Could someone update the ebuild to either reflect that by stating it or simply copy the required data into the new directory.

Comment 1 Tom Hosiawa 2004-05-30 22:39:29 UTC

To be more specific
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=162521&highlight=gdm

Comment 2 Sergey Kuleshov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-05-31 03:44:47 UTC

Unfortunately just copying files wont work. The file format is also totally different no. However I think of the following solution (need to try it though). At the moment when gdm is emerged it will create a .desktop file for every old session, this file will effectively call the old script. 

That's just an idea and I need to try it. Gnome people - what do you think?

Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-05-31 05:17:09 UTC

there is no gdm 2.6 at this point in the tree, so that part of the bug is invalid.

I think WM's should just add their respective new-style session files as needed. They have had plenty of time to do so, so i don't want to go into strange hacks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40711 ***