On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 00:08, Havoc Pennington wrote: > 't remember the whole set of issues but I think it was basically so > that a) switchdesk would appear to do something (it only works if you > are using the "Default" gdm session which runs ~/.Xclients, so if you'd > chosen a session in gdm switchdesk would seem busted) and b) so that if > someone had run switchdesk historically they wouldn't get reverted to > the default desktop on upgrade. > > Part of the issue is that switchdesk works with startx and kdm, but I > don't think we should care about that anymore honestly. kdm could have > similar functionality, and in the startx case someone is using command > line already and can edit .Xclients. Nothing elaborate about the rational: - At that time we supported xdm, kdm, gdm, and startx - So we needed something like switchdesk - The combination of switchdesk and gdm choosing the session doesn't work correctly. Regards, Owen
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