On 11/12/19 10:55 AM, simonizor wrote:
On Monday, November 11, 2019 6:23:15 PM CST, Simon Lees wrote:
On 11/12/19 10:26 AM, simonizor wrote:
... Then they stated that xinit is not supported and suggested that we use xdm instead. Guess what xdm depends on? xinit.
This is why I posted these things. It was not at all helpful to tell the user that 1) their log wasn't from where they said it was or 2) to tell the user that xinit is no longer supported and to use a DM that ...
Given that the person telling you this is the person who maintains the software he is well within his right to tell you that on openSUSE we no longer support not using a display manager and as such wont spend time debugging issues that are caused by using the software in a way that we have chosen not to support. That of course doesn't mean that you are not free to debug and fix the issue yourself and then provide the solution in the distro.
As a side note for whatever its worth on openSUSE systems lightdm is generally a better tested more feature full alternative then xdm that doesn't pull in any crazy dependencies and is the default for all the desktops other then gnome and kde.
Mayhap they shouldn't have suggested a DM that depends on the thing they are claiming to be not supported.
I don't think he meant to claim that its entirely unsupported (if that was the case it would be dropped), but that the way you were attempting to use it is no longer supported. In the same way that I as the dbus maintainer am well within my right to say I won't support any bugs you find in dbus if your using bash as your init system instead of systemd. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B