Re: [gdm-list] GDM status.

[Mike Oliver <Mike Oliver Sun COM>]

simon zheng sun com wrote:
> 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 is a good thing.  It's much harder to break 'failsafe' if
it has no configuration knobs to be tweaked.

> This way looks not very flexiable to
> allow distribution to custom.

If you want a flexible, customisable minimal session then it's
easy to define a new .desktop file that gives you exactly that.
Or several of them, if that's what you want.  The point about a
'failsafe' session is that it has a bare minimum set of
dependencies, in order to maximise its chances of working when
the system has been damaged or destabilised.

Mike.
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mike oliver sun com