Bug 109009 – >=x11-wm/fvwm-2.6.19 installs session .desktop file to wrong location

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2005-10-12 07:54:48 UTC]

Modern DMs (such as gdm and kdm) use .desktop files to decide which sessions are
available.  FVWM doesn't install a .desktop file into either of the standard
locations, so it doesn't show up as an option on gdm (kdm installs it's own) 
Here is a .desktop file (from kdm) and a patch to fvwm-2.5.14-r1.ebuild to
install the .desktop file.  With this, I can select fvwm from the list of sessions.

[Comment 1 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2005-10-12 07:55:42 UTC]

Created attachment 70453 [details]
.desktop file

.desktop file to start fvwm

[Comment 2 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2005-10-12 07:56:12 UTC]

Created attachment 70454 [details, diff]
patch to ebuild to install .desktop file

[Comment 3 Renato Caldas 2007-01-15 23:39:00 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Modern DMs (such as gdm and kdm) use .desktop files to decide which sessions
> are
> available.

That depends on what you call "modern" :) To me qingy is really modern. 

fvwm-2.6.19 does install a session file in /etc/X11/Sessions. If those DM's don't support this, IMHO its their bug :)

Anyway, this bug is old. Just "Fix" it or "Wontfix".. Tavis?

[Comment 4 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) 2007-01-20 19:23:00 UTC]

Where is that file from Daniel? Under what license is it distributed?

(i'm guessing you didnt do all those translations yourself?)

[Comment 5 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2007-01-21 03:44:50 UTC]

I honestly don't remember where I found that file, or what license it was under.    I suspect I just googled.  If you'd prefer, eutils.eclass has a function make_desktop_entry to make a desktop entry.

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2007-09-21 09:20:48 UTC]

Will this be fixed someday?

Remember that maybe you could use "make_session_desktop" from eutils.eclass...

Thanks a lot

[Comment 7 Santiago M. Mola (RETIRED) 2007-09-22 13:50:44 UTC]

This is not only about FVWM. If we consider this is a bug, then we have to ensure every WM has a .desktop entry (and /etc/X11/Sessions if it haven't already?).

@desktop-wm people: what do you think about?

[Comment 8 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-12-26 11:30:37 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> fvwm-2.6.19 does install a session file in /etc/X11/Sessions. If those DM's
> don't support this, IMHO its their bug :)

This stuff belongs to /etc/X11/dm/Sessions/

[Comment 9 David Shakaryan (RETIRED) 2008-01-06 09:22:45 UTC]

Closing this WONTFIX. Santiago is right here that this is not necessarily a bug. The package already does install a session file to /etc/X11/Sessions/, which, in my opinion, is sufficient. However, if anybody strongly believes that a .desktop file should be installed to /usr/share/xsessions/, please reopen this bug and I will fix it.

[Comment 10 Pacho Ramos 2008-01-06 13:01:23 UTC]

If it isn't to hard to fix, I would prefer get this enhancement in fvwm as some users still use fvwm-2 sometimes and getting an entry in gdm/kdm would be nice

Thanks a lot :-)

[Comment 11 David Shakaryan (RETIRED) 2008-01-07 03:49:37 UTC]

Fixed, enjoy. :P

[Comment 12 Pacho Ramos 2008-01-07 14:46:03 UTC]

Thanks a lot :-)