75898 – Session files are stored in /usr/share/xsession

Bug 75898 - Session files are stored in /usr/share/xsession

Summary: Session files are stored in /usr/share/xsession

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs-user
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Other (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2004-12-28 04:12 UTC by Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)
Modified:	2005-01-13 10:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-28 04:12:36 UTC

Apparently, all session files are now *.desktop files stored inside /usr/share/xsessions. It doesn't seem like /etc/X11/Sessions is used anymore. This needs to be verified and, if it is correct, changed throughout all the docs.

faq.xml
gnome-config.xml
kde-config.xml

Comment 1 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-10 15:16:55 UTC

Ideally, the policy that should/will be implemented is as follows:
 
Each window manager will put a file in /etc/X11/Session _and_ a file 
in /usr/share/xsessions.
Running 'startx' will still read the value of XSESSION form rc.conf, and run
the correspondent file from /etc/X11/Session.

kdm/gdm instead will provide a selection based on /usr/share/xsessions.

But this is just an idea, and currently few WMs create the .desktop file
in /usr/share/xsessions. And kdm will use /usr/share/xsessions only starting 
from kde-3.4.

Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-13 10:21:25 UTC

I've updated gnome-config.xml to reflect this, and added a note about this in the kde-config guide.