Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

[Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>]

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alex sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> writes:

> Heya
>
> On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, 00:38 Ludovic Courtès, <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>> > After successfully completing system setup from the ISO using that
>> > selection, rebooting the system launches GDM OK.  Signing in to GDM
>> > however causes the system to loop back to GDM, instead of starting a
>> > ratpoison session.  It is not clear to me what causes the issue, but I'm
>> > happy to help debug if someone can provide me with pointers on doing so.
>> >
>> > Intuitively, I would hazard a guess that the initialisation of ratpoison
>> > fails and the session is aborted, at which point GDM is restarted.
>>
>> Isn’t it just that GDM defaults to GNOME (not ratpoison), but since
>> GNOME isn’t available, it loops back?
>>
>> What if you click on the small gear and select ratpoison?
>>
>
> You are 100% correct! Thanks for that pointer - I hadn't considered it
> would still default to gnome! :)
>

Not sure if this was ever reported, but IMHO, that GDM defaults to a
(nonexistent) GNOME shell option by default even when e.g. Xfce is
installed rather than GNOME, is a bug.  I recall that for a default
installation, GDM would be correctly set to start Xfce by default, but
after the first upgrade and reboot, it would automatically be changed to
GNOME, which would obviously not work when trying to log in, and one
would have to set it back to Xfce once again.  I remember being puzzled
by this when it first occurred to me.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
>
>
>> Thanks for your feedback!
>>
>> Ludo’.
>>

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