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bug#35900: Can't logout and login again
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#35900: Can't logout and login again |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Jun 2019 23:47:18 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Philip,
address@hidden (Philip K.) skribis:
> Nevertheless, I managed to solve the issue by reading through the
> manual, and it was unrelated to my initial suspicion, and as you mention
> had to do with the xsession file containing a command (I believe it was
> "xset") that I hadn't installed in my user profile. After removing said
> lines, any all DE's worked as expected.
Good to know, I’m closing the bug now.
> Ultimately, I'd still see this as a kind of bug, since the in the case
> of GDM no error message appeared at all, and SLiM generated two written
> *over* one another, with little information on what exactly was wrong.
> Or is it generally not advised to use an .xsession file?
Using a .xsession file is fine, of course, but it generally means that
you’re “on your own.” In particular, there’s not much the login manager
can do; it cannot tell whether the .xsession script is behaving “as
intended.”
Thanks,
Ludo’.