Re: [gdm-list] GDM status.

["simon zheng sun com" <Simon Zheng Sun COM>]

Ray,

On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 15:14 -0400, Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Could we add "failsafe session support" in this cycle? I think it's
> > useful to debug.
> 
> So just to refresh my memory on the discussion before and to
> summarize, the two possibilities we discussed were:
> 
> - Add "Other..." to the session list at the bottom that popped up a
> dialog asking what to run as the user after login
> - Having distributions that want it, to ship a failsafe.desktop or
> xterm.desktop that just shows the xterm.
> 
> right?

Sorry, I didn't see earlier discussion. 

Does the first possibility need user to specify command line,
e.g. "/usr/bin/gnome-session --failsafe"? If yes, I prefer the second
one. Usually user can't make sure what's correct command. Shipping a
failsafe.desktop or xterm.desktop looks better.

Additionally, when I looked into current GDM 2.20, I found Failsafe
GNOME and Failsafe Xterm starting CLI was generated in hard-code rather
than desktop file. I only find gnome.desktop, there's no
failsafe.desktop or xterm.desktop. This way looks not very flexiable to
allow distribution to custom.

-Simon

> 
> The important point that got brought up before was that people don't
> normally use failsafe sessions for actual failsafe.  They use it as
> "get me to a login terminal fast without loading anything" mechanism.
> 
> --Ray
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