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#408
lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings modifies lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf-devuan-cinnabar
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bug#408; Package lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings.
(Fri, 13 Mar 2020 14:18:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
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Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
Version: 1.2.2-2
When you use lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings to modify LightDM's greeter
and press "save", it modifies /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.
The problem is that (at least under Devuan Beowulf)
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
is a symlink to
/etc/alternatives/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
which in turn is a symlink to
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf-devuan-cinnabar
So you end up losing the original lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf-devuan-cinnabar.
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bug#408; Package lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings.
(Sat, 14 Mar 2020 13:03:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Message #8 received at 408@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Joril,
On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:04:19 +0100 Joril <jorilx@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem is that (at least under Devuan Beowulf)
> /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
> is a symlink to
> /etc/alternatives/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
> which in turn is a symlink to
> /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf-devuan-cinnabar
>
> So you end up losing the original lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf-devuan-cinnabar.
I am not sure what you expect ot happen here?
If you edit the settings with this tool, files in /etc/lightdm will be
changed. If you need to restore, you can always reinstall.
Or am I missing something or misunderstanding you?
Mark
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bug#408; Package lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings.
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Message #13 received at 408@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):
On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 12:56:38 +0000
Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> wrote:
> > So you end up losing the original lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf-devuan-cinnabar.
>
> I am not sure what you expect ot happen here?
>
> If you edit the settings with this tool, files in /etc/lightdm will be
> changed. If you need to restore, you can always reinstall.
>
> Or am I missing something or misunderstanding you?
Hi Mark,
Well of course this is a very minor bug or not a bug at all, but it seemed strange to me that lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf is handled via the "alternatives" system, so I thought it wasn't expected to be modified by other tools.
In other words, that lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf-devuan-cinnabar was expected to be left alone, while lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings should have created a new alternative to be modified.
Very minor stuff, as I said :)
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