Bug 103887

Summary:	KDM does not play well with Blackbox windowmanager
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Forgotten User 6CfSUJ5Yw_ <forgotten_6CfSUJ5Yw_>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	/var/log/kdm.log

Description Forgotten User 6CfSUJ5Yw_ 2005-08-10 16:54:08 UTC

Blackbox is installed and does work as expected when invoked by "startx
blackbox" from a console login.  KDM does not offer Blackbox or icewm as
possible session types even though both are installed.  If I set the DEFAULT_WM
with the YAST sysconfig editor, KDM does not successfully start Blackbox.  IIRC,
the screen goes black for several seconds and then returns to the KDM screen. 
Only twm and openbox are explicitly offered as WM, plus default and custom.

Comment 1 Hendrik Vogelsang 2005-08-11 17:17:09 UTC

im sorry but i cannot reproduce this. i can start blackbox just fine from kdm.

please give me the output of the command

wmlist

Comment 2 Forgotten User 6CfSUJ5Yw_ 2005-08-11 17:34:20 UTC

$ wmlist
windowmaker blackbox openbox fvwm2 icewm twm

Note: only openbox and twm show in the Sessions type menu.

Comment 3 Hendrik Vogelsang 2005-08-12 09:18:02 UTC

strange

please attach 

/var/log/kdm.log

Comment 4 Forgotten User 6CfSUJ5Yw_ 2005-08-13 19:08:54 UTC

Created attachment 45977 [details]
/var/log/kdm.log

Attached is the KDM log.  I see no errors.

However, he bug is now irreproducible for me.  When I had the problems, KDM
looked just like in previous releases, a approximately square window with users
and icons on the left, the KDE gear in the upper right, and the menus in the
lower right.  The background was blue with abstract slashes and shading.  This
morning, the display mamanger is a radial blue background with no well defined
window, the user list and menu are directly in the background.	There are a
vertical and a horizontal line of dots in graduated sizes.

I've hacked various userland dot scripts trying to debug the process and force
the WM to blackbox.  I will start backing out my changes and see if I have
expected functionality.

Comment 5 Hendrik Vogelsang 2005-08-22 09:06:42 UTC

any news here?

Comment 6 Forgotten User 6CfSUJ5Yw_ 2005-08-22 16:40:14 UTC

It remains un-reproducable.  I am unclear what changed to cause KDM to start
working as expected.  If I had to gues, I'd suspect an unstated dependency that
was satisfied by installation of a package after installation.  But your guess
is better than mine.

I plan on installing the beta2 tomorrow (8/23).  If it doesn't recur, I'll close
the bug.

Comment 7 Forgotten User 6CfSUJ5Yw_ 2005-08-25 20:59:26 UTC

Fixed in beta3.