Bugzilla – Bug 103887
KDM does not play well with Blackbox windowmanager
Last modified: 2005-09-03 16:57:27 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.
im sorry but i cannot reproduce this. i can start blackbox just fine from kdm. please give me the output of the command wmlist
$ wmlist windowmaker blackbox openbox fvwm2 icewm twm Note: only openbox and twm show in the Sessions type menu.
strange please attach /var/log/kdm.log
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.
any news here?
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.
Fixed in beta3.