Attachment 8603 Details for Bug 18199 – patch for xinitrc's Xsession to get sddm working with gnome-classic

[patch] patch for xinitrc's Xsession to get sddm working with gnome-classic

Xsession.diff (text/plain), 854 bytes, created by Giuseppe Ghibò on 2016-10-27 01:04:07 CEST

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Creator: Giuseppe Ghibò

Created: 2016-10-27 01:04:07 CEST

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obsolete

--- Xsession.orig	2016-08-30 13:02:18.000000000 +0200
+++ Xsession	2016-10-27 00:07:27.528180344 +0200
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 # default values
 
 DESKTOP=default
+ARGS="$@"
+NARGS=$#
+LAST="${@:$#}"
 
 # read the user (~/.i18n) or system-wide (/etc/sysconfig/i18n) i18n settings
 . /etc/profile.d/10lang.sh
@@ -146,6 +149,15 @@
 	exec /bin/sh -c "$HOME/.Xclients"
 fi
 
+#(gg) if we are still here, we heuristically assume that the arguments
+# passed to Xsession represents the command to be executed for running the desktop environment.
+# Ideally we assume the last argument is the session name, though it doesn't matter.
+if [ "$NARGS" -ge 2 -a "$DESKTOP" = "default" ]; then
+	FALLBACK_EXEC="$ARGS"
+	SESSION="$LAST"
+	exec /bin/sh -c "${FALLBACK_EXEC}"
+fi
+
 # We may try with chksession
 if [ -x /usr/sbin/chksession ];then
 #get the first available

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