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tdebase (4:3.4.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
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*** Changes to KDM conffiles:
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* Users upgrading KDM from 3.3.x, will find that KDM no longer uses the
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/etc/trinity/kdm/Xservers file, if /etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc was updated to
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the version shipped with KDM 3.4.x. The package upgrade scripts
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will not remove Xservers even if kdmrc has been upgraded, if they detect
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local modifications. This should allow administrators to merge their
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Xservers changes into kdmrc before themselves removing Xservers. The new
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ServerArgsLocal key in kdmrc is where most old Xservers customizations
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should be placed.
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* Irrespective of the removal of the Xservers file, we highly recommend that
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all administrators accept the installation of the updated kdmrc file
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during the package upgrade. Many important changes to KDM's defaults have
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been made, and KDM is exceedingly bad at handling anything but the latest
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kdmrc format, so the nuissance of re-customizing KDM will likely prove
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less than the nuissance of dealing with a KDM that isn't working properly.
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If you have already upgraded KDM package without accepting the new kdmrc,
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purging and reinstalling the package should achieve the desired result.
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*** Changes to user login script handling:
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* Another important change that users upgrading from KDM 3.3.x may notice
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is that KDM's ability to source personal login scripts, long disabled, has
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been restored. The exact files sourced on login will depend on the user's
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choice of shell. For users of bash, KDM will source /etc/profile, followed
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by ~/.bash_profile or, if that is not present, ~/.profile. Note that KDM
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is NOT spawning a login shell, but is merely mimicking the behaviour that
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popular shells would exhibit if they were login shells, by manually
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sourcing the customary login scripts. /etc/trinity/kdm/Xsession controls this
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behaviour.
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* The important downside of the above approach is that KDM will utterly fail
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to start a user's session if the newly sourced files contain certain types
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of commands. For instance, many commands will cause the login attempt to
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fail because they expect an interactive shell, or because you are trying
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to "exec" something that cannot provide an X session. For instance,
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"exec ksmserver" will launch KDE, but "exec bash" will fail. Thus if you
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are unsure why KDM is refusing to start your session, try commenting out
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elements of the newly sourced login scripts, and you may find the problem
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resolved.
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-- Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:13:41 -0400
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tdebase (4:3.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
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* Users upgrading from KDE 3.2 might find that their keyboards seem no longer
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to work in KDM. This problem is caused by a change in KDE's handling of
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virtual terminals. The setting which puts KDM on vt7, which was contained
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in /etc/trinity/kdm/Xservers, has changed, and is also now located in
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/etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc.
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* Users who, when upgrading to KDE 3.3, opted to replace their Xservers file
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with the version shipped by the package, but chose to retain their
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/etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc file, will thus have a KDM configuration which nowhere
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contains a setting which properly places KDM on vt7. This can result in a
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race condition which has the end effect of breaking the keyboard when using
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KDM.
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* The solution to the problem is either to replace both of Xservers and
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kdmrc, or neither, when upgrading to KDE 3.3 for the first time.
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* Users already stuck can, after killing KDE, purge and re-install the kdm
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package, ensuring that the latest, fresh copies are installed.
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Alternatively, they can edit /etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc and add the following
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line:
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ServerVTs=-7
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in the [General] section of the file.
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-- Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:11:07 +0100
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