Bug#564071: gdm: GDM does not pick up sessions in /var/lib/menu-xdg/xsessions/

[Francis Russell]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.10-1
Severity: normal


GDM is not picking up xsessions that are stored in /var/lib/menu-xdg/xsessions. It appears this
was removed in Debian bug #464179. Is there some Debian policy that specifies where xsessions should be
registered? Otherwise this seems like a bit of a hack. At least one window manager (ratpoison) uses the
menu-xdg system to register itself. Please see Debian bug #563959.

Francis


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.112        add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.28       Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu                        2.0.2-2+b1   graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session [x-session-ma 2.28.0-4     The GNOME Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal- 2.28.2-1     The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii  kde-window-manager [x-windo 4:4.3.4-3    the KDE 4 window manager (KWin)
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emulato 4:4.3.2-1    X terminal emulator for KDE 4
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.20-2     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.28.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                    1:2.4.44-1   Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudit0                   1.7.13-1     Dynamic library for security audit
ii  libc6                       2.10.2-2     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                   1.8.8-2      The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.16-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.82-2       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdmx1                     1:1.0.2-3    X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1              2.8.0-2      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.3.11-1     FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.6.4-1    library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.22.3-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.26.0-1     A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.18.3-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules              1.1.0-4      Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime              1.1.0-4      Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                    1.1.0-4      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.26.2-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2                  2.26.0-1     SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common             2.26.0-1     SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1                 2.0.89-4     SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                    7.6.q-18     Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.3.2-1    X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                     1:1.0.5-1    X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6                   1:1.0.3-1    X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                    2:1.0.4-1    X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6                      2:1.2.1-2    X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1                2:1.0.3-2    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                     2.7.6.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-23       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window-manager] 1:2.28.0-3   lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  ratpoison [x-window-manager 1.4.5-2      keyboard-only window manager
ii  twm [x-window-manager]      1:1.0.4-2    Tab window manager
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 251-1        X terminal emulator

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20080819-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gdm-themes                0.6.2          Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail                  0.52.10-5      Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn  xserver-xephyr | xnest    <none>         (no description available)
ii  xserver-xorg              1:7.4+4        the X.Org X server
ii  zenity                    2.28.0-1       Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages gdm suggests:
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring          2.28.2-1   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii  locales                       2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: National Language (
ii  pm-utils                      1.2.6.1-3  utilities and scripts for power ma

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm