Comment # 8
on bug 1131074
from Felix Miata
(In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #6)
> Looks like you've removed /usr/share/xsessions/tde.desktop meanwhile.
Looks like that to update-alternatives, but it looks like it's there to ls:
# ls -l /etc/alternatives/default-displaymanager
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Mar 31 03:44 /etc/alternatives/default-displaymanager
-> /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/tdm
# ls -l /etc/alternatives/default-xsession.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Mar 31 03:43
/etc/alternatives/default-xsession.desktop -> /usr/share/xsessions/tde.desktop
# ls -l /usr/share/xsessions/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Sep 21 2018 default.desktop ->
/etc/alternatives/default-xsession.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 21 2018 icewm-session.desktop -> icewm.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2498 Sep 21 2018 icewm.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4083 Mar 18 16:52 tde.desktop
# update-alternatives --config default-displaymanager
There are 3 choices for the alternative default-displaymanager (providing
/usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/default-displaymanager).
Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/tdm 15 auto mode
1 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/console 5 manual mode
2 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/tdm 15 manual mode
3 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/xdm 10 manual mode
Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: There is
1 choice for the alternative default-xsession.desktop (providing
/usr/share/xsessions/default.desktop).
# update-alternatives --config default-xsession.desktop
Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
0 /usr/share/xsessions/icewm-session.desktop 15 auto mode
1 /usr/share/xsessions/icewm-session.desktop 15 manual
mode
Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number
/usr/share/xsessions/tde.desktop and
/usr/lib/X11/disaplaymangers/tdm
are owned by package trinity.tdm.
# zypper ref
# zypper -v in -f trinity-tdm
The rebooting produced:
# update-alternatives --config default-displaymanager
There are 3 choices for the alternative default-displaymanager (providing
/usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/default-displaymanager).
Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/tdm 30 auto mode
1 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/console 5 manual mode
2 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/tdm 30 manual mode
3 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/xdm 10 manual mode
...
# update-alternatives --config default-xsession.desktop
Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
0 /usr/share/xsessions/icewm-session.desktop 15 auto mode
1 /usr/share/xsessions/icewm-session.desktop 15 manual
mode
...
> This is what you want for surviving the next "zypper up".
Looks like I'm set for TDM, but since tde-session.desktop is not found by
update-alternatives, what to do for tde-session.desktop to survive I'm at at
loss. Is this a bug that needs to be reported to TDE's bug tracker, or a bug in
update-alternatives not finding a file that clearly exists?