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Subject: Re: GDM update!
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:13:29 +0100
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To: Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>
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Hello!

Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> skribis:

> Maybe the GDM folks expect that we write a custom =E2=80=9C.desktop=E2=80=
=9D file that
> runs a custom script that checks for =E2=80=9C~/.xsession=E2=80=9D and ru=
ns it.  It
> could use =E2=80=9CTryExec=E2=80=9D to figure out if =E2=80=9C~/.xsession=
=E2=80=9D exists, and offer it
> to the user (in the session selector) in that case.  To be concrete, we
> would create a =E2=80=9Cuser.desktop=E2=80=9D session file with the follo=
wing contents.
>
>     [Desktop Entry]
>     Name=3DUser Session
>     Comment=3DStart a user-defined session
>     Exec=3Drun-user-xsession
>     TryExec=3Dxsession-exists-p
>     Icon=3D
>     Type=3DApplication
>
> Here, =E2=80=9Crun-user-xsession=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cxsession-exists-p=
=E2=80=9D are custom scripts
> that we would write.  If this file were somewhere that GDM knows about
> (e.g., =E2=80=9C/run/current-system/profile/share/xsessions=E2=80=9D), it=
 should work.

We could do that, or should we just arrange for GDM to honor .xsession
when it exists just like we do for SLiM?

Specifically I=E2=80=99m thinking of the =E2=80=98xinitrd=E2=80=99 procedur=
e in (gnu services
xorg) and how we pass it to SLiM via =E2=80=98slim.cfg=E2=80=99.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.