Re: [gdm-list] a few gdm changes

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Ray:

> Okay, so frequently when you use failsafe, you don't use it to recover
> a broken system, but instead use it to initiate a quick, one-off
> custom Xsession?

Or just a command line program you want to run.

> Maybe for that case we should just offer an "Other..." option in the
> list of sessions that asks for the command to run?

What if the user wants to run "rm ~/.gconfd" to delete the GDM's GConf
configuration database?  :)

I don't think an arbitrary command makes sense.  Perhaps a list of
"acceptable" commands.  Perhaps some checkbox to indicate that the user
wants to run in "failsafe" mode which basically does the special things
"Failsafe" should do.  As I said in my previous message this simply
includes:

- Ignore errors from PreSession/PostSession/PostLogin
- Do not run Xsession, instead just start X and run the command.
- Avoid writing $HOME/.xsession-errors, or instead write it elsewhere
  (perhaps to /tmp/$USER-xsession-errors.$PID or something).

Brian