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openmotif package

No display manager entry for Motif Window Manager session

Bug #310895 reported by Ansus
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Fix Released
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Fix Released
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Bug Description

[FFe] Please consider the patch attached to comment #3 of LP: #1026640 for a Feature Freeze exception.

[IMPACT]
Users of the motif-clients package have no easy way to select the Motif Window Manager (MWM) included in this package.

[Test Case]
Install packages libmotif4 and motif-clients. Log out, then at the display manager log in screen, verify that there is now an option for 'Motif Window Manager' and that you can log in after selecting it. You should see an empty desktop. Right-click causes a popup menu with 'New Window' and 'Quit...' options to appear.

[Regression Potential]
Minimal: only the file /usr/share/xsessions/mwm.desktop is added.

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After installing motif-clients package that includes mwm window manager, it is very difficult to switch to use this WM, since GDM login screen does not include corresponding entry.

See also this discussion for a workaround and proposed fix:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/14228/

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Graham Inggs (ginggs) wrote :

debdiff for Quantal attached to LP: #1026640

Changed in openmotif (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Graham Inggs (ginggs)
summary: - No GDM entry for MWM window manager session
+ No display manager entry for Motif Window Manager session
Graham Inggs (ginggs)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote :

I can't see any disadvantages, if it works. FFe granted.

Changed in openmotif (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)
Changed in openmotif (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)
Changed in openmotif (Ubuntu):
assignee: Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp) → nobody
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package openmotif - 2.3.3-5ubuntu2

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openmotif (2.3.3-5ubuntu2) quantal; urgency=low

  * Convert to multiarch (LP: #1026640). Thanks Sergio Gelato.
  * Provide backwards compatibility with libmotif3 (LP: #818220).
  * Provide display manager entry for Motif Window Manager (LP: #310895)
 -- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:23:00 +0200

Changed in openmotif (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Stefano Rivera (stefanor)
Changed in openmotif (Ubuntu Precise):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Ansus, or anyone else affected,

Accepted openmotif into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openmotif/2.3.3-5ubuntu1.12.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in openmotif (Ubuntu Precise):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
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Graham Inggs (ginggs) wrote :

After installing motif-clients 2.3.3-5ubuntu1.12.04.1 from precise-proposed and logging out, I was able to log back in using the 'Motif Window Manager' option.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package openmotif - 2.3.3-5ubuntu1.12.04.1

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openmotif (2.3.3-5ubuntu1.12.04.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Convert to multiarch (LP: #1026640). Thanks Sergio Gelato.
  * Provide backwards compatibility with libmotif3 (LP: #818220).
  * Provide display manager entry for Motif Window Manager (LP: #310895)
 -- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:40:17 +0200

Changed in openmotif (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Update Released

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

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